Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 165,112 pages of information and 246,466 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Tennant Group

From Graces Guide
1946. From The British Trade Journal. March edition.

Various companies had grown from the business originally established by Charles Tennant in 1788.

1930 Tennants Consolidated Ltd was incorporated

1930 The Tennant companies were consolidated under the name of the Tennant Group of companies[1].

1931 Tennants Consolidated acquired Charles Tennant and Co

1946 Advert: Tennant Group comprised:

1997 Tennants Distribution Ltd was formed as a holding company for 3 distribution companies Charles Tennant and Co Ltd, Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd and Charles Tennant and Co (London) Ltd.

1999 Tennants (Lancashire) Ltd and Charles Tennant and Co (London) Ltd formally merged under the name Tennants Distribution Ltd. Charles Tennant and Co Ltd (based in Scotland) remained a separate subsidiary company.


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Sources of Information

  1. First Tennant Memorial Lecture, 1943, delivered by Brigadier General Sir William Alexander to the Glasgow section of the Society of Chemical Industry