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Ripley and Co

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of Silk Street and Chapel Street, City of London, printers

of South Wigston, Leics.

1926 Company incorporated to acquire the existing printers business as well as the business of Corfe and Seccombe of Bury Street and Heneage Street, City of London.

1972 An extraordinary meeting of the company was held at the offices of Riddington and Co, Cornwall Road, South Wigston, Leics.

By 1986 was described as label printers to the packaging industry.

1986 Name changed to Ripley Group Ltd

1990 "Scottish-based label-making company".[1]

1990 Acquired by Wace Group.

1991 Cornwall Road, South Wigston, Leicester.[2]

By 1995 subsidiaries included Riddington and Co and Clyde Gravure Ltd and Ripley Perth Ltd of Scotland[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 11 August 1990
  2. Leicester Daily Mercury - Thursday 09 May 1991
  3. 1995 Annual report