Records of Sekers Group Ltd, textile manufacturers, 1988-1994, Hensingham, England

Minutes, 1988-1992.

This description is part of the main Stoddard International plc  collection which has been divided into the following sections, each with its own separate description:

• STOD/DES, Design Archive;
• STOD/200, A F Stoddard & Co Ltd;
• STOD/201, James Templeton & Co Ltd;
• STOD/202, Blackwood, Morton & Sons Ltd;
• STOD/203, Henry Widnell & Stewart Ltd;
• STOD/204, Grays Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/205, John Lyle & Co Ltd;
• STOD/206, Douglas, Reyburn & Co Ltd;
• STOD/207, Bonded Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/208, Caledonian Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/209, Glenvale Carpets;
• STOD/210, Louis de Poortere (England) Ltd;
• STOD/211, Nordale Wools Ltd;
• STOD/212, Paisley Planners Ltd;
• STOD/213, Ronald Jack & Co;
• STOD/214, Scotsway;
• STOD/215, Sekers Group Ltd;
• STOD/216, Stewart Spinners (Galashiels) Ltd;
• STOD/217, Stoddard Carpets Ltd;
• STOD/218, Stoddard Carpets (Ireland) Ltd;
• STOD/219, Stoddard Group Ltd;
• STOD/220, Stoddard International Ltd;
• STOD/221, Stoddard Trustees Ltd.

In 1988 as part of a programme to diversity operations, Stoddard Holdings plc acquired Sekers, an English textile manufacturing company which specialised in the production of silks and curtain fabrics. Sekers Group Ltd became part of the larger Stoddard group which changed its name on the acquisition to Stoddard Sekers International plc .

The purchase of Sekers was not, however, a success for the Stoddard group, and the silk production side of the business was sold off the following year. Sekers Group Ltd was dissolved in 1994.

In 2011, Sekers Fabrics Ltd continues to trade.

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Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999and National Council on Archives, Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

Scotland is the location of all place names in the administrative/biographical history element, unless otherwise stated.

Descriptions compiled by Kimberly Sommerville, Project Archivist (Stoddard-Templeton Corporate Archive), May 2011.