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Screwfix Direct Limited, trading as Screwfix, is a retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products based in the United Kingdom. [6] Founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher plc , which also owns B&Q , and is listed on the London Stock Exchange .
Within a year he had again grown by buying his neighbours' businesses at 89 Kensington High Street and 26 Ball Street. By 1880, he had extended his stores at 87–89 Kensington High Street and had bought an ironmongery business at 14–16 Ball Street and added 75–77 Kensington High Street and 12 Ball Street to his premises. [1]
Ironmongery originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than industrial use. In both contexts, the term has expanded to include items made of steel , aluminium , brass , or other metals , as well as plastics .
Architectural ironmongery includes door handles, closers, locks, cylinder pulls and hinges (door furniture), window fittings, cupboard fittings, iron railings, handrails, balustrades, switches and sockets. The term is sometimes used to distinguish between these items and retail of consumer goods sold in ironmongers' shops or hardware stores.
Halfords was founded by Frederick Rushbrooke, in Birmingham in 1892, as a wholesale ironmongery. [3] The company takes its name from Halford Street, named after the physician, Henry Halford , in Leicester , where Rushbrooke opened a store in 1902 and started selling cycling goods.
Claude Hamilton Verity (1 May 1880 – 15 August 1949) was a hardware merchant, engineer and inventor, working mainly in Harrogate and Leeds, England.He was one of the earliest inventors of methods of synchronisation of sound with silent films.
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In October 2020, it was announced that Travis Perkins had sold Tile Giant to Coverings Ltd. [27] In April 2021 the demerger of Wickes Group plc was completed. [28] In May 2021 the company announced that it had agreed to sell its plumbing and heating businesses to H.I.G. Capital. [29]