History
The company was founded in January 1967 by David Blackhall and Barry Barrett as a division of their office equipment business. In 1980, the company was acquired by Dickinson Robinson Group (DRG) PLC, a multi-national paper company based in Bristol and became DRG Litho Supplies, a division of DRG. DRG was taken over by Pembridge Investments in 1989 and the management team bought out the company with help from 3i and the Bank of Scotland in 1990. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1993; the epic code is LTS. Now its value is? - shares are suspended, administrators appointed and staff being laid off
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