About Armitage Shanks

The company that was to become Armitage Shanks was founded in 1817 by Thomas Bond. In 1907 “Armitage Ware Limited” was incorporated which was to later merge with “Shanks Holdings Limited”, a competing "sanitary engineering company" established in 1878, producing the famous brand name Armitage Shanks. Armitage Shanks was purchased by Blue Circle Industries in 1980, who later sold to American Standard in the 1990s who we now know as Ideal Standard. Following this purchase, the Armitage Shanks brand continued in the UK, and their former export markets