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Hudson Group History

The Hudson Group traces its roots back to 1821, when Benjamin Hudson set up as a printer in Birmingham.

The company specialised in printing, but like many city-centre printers, in 1899 opened a shop on Edmund Street, Birmingham, selling stationers' sundries.

By the end of the century the shop was dealing in office supplies and was offering a service making rubber stamps.
 

COMPANY PROFILE  

Hudson acquired the business of W Rickman King and this boosted the premises to 40,000 sq ft, employing 200 people.
More acquisitions followed, in 1954 the printer Buckler and Webb, and in 1969 Burman Cooper who occupied the current site on Bromford Lane.
Hudson sold the Edmund Street print factory to a developer and henceforth the newly acquired Burman Cooper became the print shop.

In 1996 Hudson consolidated the two remaining parts of the business onto the one site in Bromford Lane with space for both office supplies and printing.

In 1998 The Hudson Group changed ownership due to a management buyout. Chairman and Chief Executive Mervyn Wood and joint Managing Directors Colin Lydon and Bob Rhodes purchased the business from the previous Hudson, Vaughton and Burman owning families.

During 2003 Mervyn Wood purchased the shares of Bob Rhodes and Colin Lydon and relocated the business to the Gravelly Park site from where the company is enjoying a period of sustained growth.