Tams Group Ltd

Location and period of operation:

 (See sources)

 

Tams Group PLC (formerly John Tams & Son Ltd) floated in 1988 and in 1995 was fully listed on the London Stock Exchange.

• Trading was suspended in February 2000 and the company placed into receivership. 

• At the time of receivership the company was operating at five factories and employed over 700 people.

 

Tams Group Ltd was formed in April 2000.  It was a management buyout of part of the former John Tams Group PLC, which  went into receivership in February 2000.

• Tams Group Limited  bought the rights to Tams, Royal Grafton and Grafton Living.  

• Marketing these brands and still manufacturing in Longton, Stoke on Trent until 2006 they were the biggest ceramic employer in Longton.

• The company operated from the Crown Works on The Strand in Longton and also from the Blythe, Sutherland and Atlas works in Longton - and a warehouse at the former Monarch flatware site in Fenton.
  
  

[ See newspaper articles on the receivership of John Tams in Feb 2000 ] 

Tams Range

Grafton Living by Tams 

Royal Grafton by Tams

Tams Group Ltd
manufacturing cups in china and earthenware