Dickinson Robinson Group

The Dickinson Robinson Group, or DRG, was a listed British paper, printing and packaging company founded in 1966 as a result of a merger of John Dickinson Stationery Ltd. and E. S. & A. Robinson Ltd., creating one of the world's largest stationery and packaging companies. Products with a high public profile included Sellotape, which it owned from the 1960s to the 1980s, and Basildon Bond, which dated from 1911.

In 1978, DRG took over the Royal Sovereign group of companies.

In 1989, Roland Franklin (Pembridge Associates) acquired DRG's packaging business with a leveraged buyout worth £900 million and the assets of that company were stripped. In 1992, the packaging business was acquired by Bowater-Scott.

The John Dickinson stationery business was acquired by DS Smith in 1996 and, in turn, in 2005 by Hamelin, a French company.

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