- TI Group
TI Group plc (formerly Tube Investments) was a holding company for various specialised
engineering companies. The three major divisions wereJohn Crane International , a manufacturer of mechanical seals;Bundy Corporation , a tubing manufacturer and supplier to the refrigeration and automotive industries; and Dowty Group plc, anaerospace company. [cite web | url = http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/TI-Group-plc-Company-History.html | title = TI Group plc - Company History | accessdate = 2006-09-26| date = 1997| publisher = fundinguniverse.com] The Group also owned TI Creda an manufacture of domestic cookers in the 1980s. An TI Chesterfield cylinders a manufacture of pressurised gas cylinders for companies such asBOC andAir Products , the division was sold of and the factory has relocated toSheffield fromChesterfield . [http://www.yhef.co.uk/about_the_fund/portfolio/chesterfield_portfolio.htm MBO in 2004 from German successor to TI]History
The business was registered in 1919 as a public company combining the following seamless steel tube manufacturing companies:
Tubes Limited ,New Credenda Tube (later known as Creda),Star Tube , andSt. Helen's Tube and Metal .* 1919
Accles & Pollock (tube makers) was purchased.
* 1928Reynolds Tube was purchased.
* 1928Ivan Stedeford joins company.
* 1935Ivan Stedeford elected CEO.
* 1944Ivan Stedeford elected Chairman.
* 1946Swallow Coachbuilding Co. (1935) Ltd.
* 19?? TheBritish Cycle Corporation subsidiary was formed which eventually composed of the following cycle companies:
**Phillips Cycles
** Hercules Cycles (No connection with the German Hercules company)
** Armstrong
**Rudge Whitworth
**Norman Cycles
**Sun Cycles
* 1958/9 The Aluminium War
* 1960 Raleigh Industries joined the group bringing with it:
** BSA Cycles
**J. B. Brookes
* 1963 BoughtRussell Hobbs , kettle manufacturers [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/03/04/db0401.xml]
* 1963Ivan Stedeford retires as Chairman & CEO and assumes title of Life President.
* 1987 Raleigh was sold.
* 1987 Creda was sold toGEC Group [http://www.hotpointservice.co.uk/Service/aboutus.html]
* 1992 Dowty Group plc was purchased
* 1996 Accles & Pollock was sold to Hay Hall Group [http://www.accles.co.uk/history.asp] .
* 2000 On18 September 2000 Smiths Group announced its intention to merge with TI Group. [cite news | title = Engineering rivals to merge | publisher = BBC News | date = 2000-09-18 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/930419.stm | accessdate =2006-09-25] The merger was completed on 4 December. Smiths divested TI's automotive business shortly after the merger.References
External links
* History of the TI Group, from the company's former website on the Internet Archive [http://web.archive.org/web/20001204065600/www.tigroup.com/about/briefhistory.html]
* TI Group former website on the Internet Archive [http://web.archive.org/web/20001205011500/www.tigroup.com/index.html]
* Smiths Group History [http://www.smiths-group.com/growingthroughtheyears.htm] .
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