Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks is a British manufacturer of bathroom fixtures and plumbing supplies. As of 2004 Armitage Shanks has eight factories in the U.K., the largest of which is in Stoke-on-Trent. Armitage Shanks is one of the sponsors of the Loo of the Year Awards. The company that became Armitage Shanks was founded in 1817 by Thomas Bond in Armitage, Staffordshire. The Armitage "sanitary pottery manufacture" became a successful UK toilet manucturer. In 1907 Armitage Ware Limited was incorporated. In 1969 Armitage merged with Shanks Holdings Limited, a competing "sanitary engineering company" established at Barrhead near Glasgow, Scotland in 1878, producing the famous brand name Armitage Shanks. In 1980 ownership of Armitage Shanks company was purchased by Blue Circle Industries. In February 1999 Blue Circle sold its bathroom division (consisting of Armitage Shanks and the Italian Ceramica Dolomite) to U.S. based American Standard for 430 million United States dollars.

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The company has inspired other people and groups to use the name, sometimes as an example of toilet humour.

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