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Needle Industries Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Milward, Henry, & Sons Ltd
  • Amalgamated Needles & Fish Hooks Ltd
  • Hall, Willian, & Co Ltd
  • English Needle & Fishing Tackle Co Ltd
  • Coats, J & P, Ltd
  • Farlows of Alnwick
  • Milward, Henry, & Sons Ltd
  • Amalgamated Needles & Fish Hooks Ltd
  • Hall, William, & Co Ltd
  • English Needle & Fishing Tackle Co Ltd
  • Coats, J & P, Ltd
  • Farlows of Alnwick

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Redditch, Worcestershire, Hereford & Worcester, West Midlands, England
  • Studley, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England

Sectors:

  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Needle, pin & fish hook production

Notes:

Traced origins to 1930 when formed through merger of Henry Milward & Sons Ltd of Redditch, established 1842, and Amalgamated Needles & Fish Hooks Ltd of Studley, established in 1905 and based on the older business of William Hall & Co Ltd. Both businesses had grown through acquisition of many other needle businesses. New business known as Amalgamated Needles and Fish Hooks Ltd which in 1932 created, as its manufacturing business, English Needle & Fishing Tackle Co Ltd. 1946 renamed Needle Industries Ltd. 1940s J & P Coats Ltd took a major equity interest and in 1972 acquired the business. 1965 fishing tackle business sold to Farlows of Alnwick. By 1980s UK's sole remaining needle maker. Made wide variety of needles, eg surgical, hosiery, gramophone, knitting, etc

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