Hanson: version 1
Saved 2026-09-24 21:36 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Settled owner_unknown as far as sources go: Companies House identifies the entity as company 00097873 (incorporated 1908, renamed Famous Names 1981, Elizabeth Shaw 1988, Armoury Square Limited 2000; w. This is the current version.
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# Hanson <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Hanson
disambiguation: The former Hanson Trust PLC and Hanson PLC, company 00488067, now Hanson Building Materials Limited in the Heidelberg Materials group
summary: British conglomerate built by James Hanson and Gordon White from 1964 as Hanson Trust, owner of Imperial Group from 1986, part of HeidelbergCement since 2007.
legal_name: Hanson Building Materials Limited
registered_address: Second Floor, Arena Court, Crown Lane, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, SL6 8QZ
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:00488067
founded: 1950-11-08
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Hanson Trust Public Limited Company | legal | en | | 1987-12-03 |
| Hanson PLC | legal | en | 1987-12-03 | 2003-10-14 |
| Hanson Building Materials Limited | legal | en | 2003-10-14 | |
| Hanson Trust | name | en | | 1987 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-hanson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanson_plc | Wikipedia: Heidelberg Materials UK (formerly Hanson plc) | 2026-09-24 | Wikipedia | publication | | | 1964 formation, Imperial Tobacco 1986, 1996 demerger, HeidelbergCement 2007 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| ch-hanson | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00488067 | Companies House: Hanson Building Materials Limited | 2026-09-24 | Companies House | registry | | 00488067 | Incorporation, previous names, registered office | | | |
| wiki-es | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Shaw_(confectionery_company) | Wikipedia: Elizabeth Shaw (confectionery company) | 2026-09-24 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Cavenham Confectionery Ltd; Famous Names Ltd to Elizabeth Shaw Ltd | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Hanson was the British conglomerate that James Hanson and Gordon White created in 1964 out of the Wiles Group as Hanson Trust; its largest purchase of the 1980s was Imperial Group, the tobacco, brewing and food company, which it took over in 1986 for 2.5 billion pounds.[^wiki-hanson] The legal entity is company 00488067, incorporated on 8 November 1950 as Hanson Trust Public Limited Company, renamed Hanson PLC in 1987 and Hanson Building Materials Limited in 2003.[^ch-hanson]
In January 1996 Hanson split itself into four listed companies, Hanson plc, Imperial Tobacco, The Energy Group and Millennium Chemicals, and in 2007 HeidelbergCement bought Hanson for about 8 billion pounds; its British business has traded as Heidelberg Materials UK since 2023.[^wiki-hanson] Through Imperial Group it held Famous Names, the former Cavenham Confectionery, from 1986 until its management bought it in 1988.[^wiki-es]
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