Editing Armitage Shanks

{{Short description|British bathroom & plumbing manufacturer}}
{{For|the similarly titled song "Armatage Shanks" by Green Day|Insomniac (Green Day album)}}
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| name = Armitage Shanks
| logo = Armitage-shanks-logo.svg
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| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
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| predecessor = Armitage Ware Limited
| successor = [[American Standard Companies]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1817}}
| founder = Thomas Bond
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| location_city = [[Stoke-on-Trent]]
| location_country = England, United Kingdom
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| locations = 8 factories
| area_served = [[United Kingdom]]
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| industry = [[Bathroom]] fixtures & [[plumbing]] supplies
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| owner = [[Bain Capital]]
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| homepage = [http://www.armitage-shanks.co.uk/ www.armitage-shanks.co.uk]
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'''Armitage Shanks''' is a British manufacturer of [[bathroom]] fixtures and [[plumbing]] supplies, now part of the group [[Ideal Standard]].

In 2004, Armitage Shanks had eight factories in the United Kingdom, the largest in [[Armitage]], [[Staffordshire]]. Armitage Shanks is one of the sponsors of the [[Loo of the Year Award]]s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Armitage Shanks {{!}} Bathroom Supplies Online |url=https://www.bathroomsuppliesonline.com/armitage-shanks1/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=www.bathroomsuppliesonline.com}}</ref>

==History==
The company that became Armitage Shanks was founded in 1817, by Thomas Bond in [[Armitage]], [[Staffordshire]]. The Armitage "sanitary pottery manufacture" became a successful [[toilet]] manufacturer in the United Kingdom. In 1907, ''Armitage Ware Limited'' was [[incorporation (business)|incorporated]].<ref name=":0" />

In 1969, Armitage merged with ''Shanks Holdings Limited'', a competing "sanitary engineering company" that was established in 1878 in [[Barrhead]] near [[Glasgow]], [[Renfrewshire]], producing the famous [[brand name]] Armitage Shanks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barrhead-scotland.com/Culture/history/shanks.asp|title=Shanks of Barrhead|access-date=2009-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312064111/http://www.barrhead-scotland.com/Culture/history/shanks.asp|archive-date=2009-03-12|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1980, Armitage Shanks was purchased by [[Blue Circle Industries]], and in February 1999, Blue Circle sold its bathroom division (consisting of Armitage Shanks and the Italian Ceramica Dolomite) to United States based [[American Standard Companies]] for [[United States dollar|US$]]430 million.

Following this purchase, the Armitage Shanks brand continued in the United Kingdom, and their former export markets. American Standard were acquired by [[Bain Capital]] in February 2007, and is now majority owned by [[Sun Capital Partners]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Armitage Shanks 1.jpg|Armitage Shanks logo on a [[urinal (restroom)|urinal]]
File:Armitage Shanks Basins.jpg|Armitage Shanks logo on a [[sink]]
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.armitage-shanks.co.uk/ Official website]

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[[Category:Ceramics manufacturers of England]]
[[Category:British brands]]
[[Category:Companies based in Stoke-on-Trent]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1817]]
[[Category:1817 establishments in England]]
[[Category:Bathroom fixture companies]]
[[Category:British companies established in 1817]]
[[Category:1969 mergers and acquisitions]]
[[Category:1980 mergers and acquisitions]]
[[Category:1999 mergers and acquisitions]]
[[Category:Bain Capital companies]]