Hartons Group
Distributor of plastic sheets and films[1]
1981 Francis Sumner planned to demerge its textiles business, which was quoted, and a new company, Hartons Group, an industrial holding company, which would be unquoted[2]
1982 Merger of 2 plastic distributors, subsidiaries of British Syphon Co and Hartons Group; the new firm would trade as Valiant[3]