Anglian Home Improvements

The company was founded as Anglian Windows, in 1966 by George Williams when he opened a factory in Norwich. In 1969 the first showroom opened in Ipswich before the company expanded its factory a year later selling PVCu products. Over the next few decades, Anglian grew to become a market leader, fitting over half a million products each year.

In 1984, Anglian was acquired for £30 million by British Electric Traction. During the next few years, the company expanded its product range to include conservatories, doors and stained-glass overlay. The recession during the 1980s damaged Anglian's profits, which saw a management buyout in 1991. This change in management led to financial success, and the company spent nearly ten years on the London Stock Exchange.

The company re-branded as Anglian Home Improvements in 1997. In 2001 the holding company Anglian Group was bought by investment group Alchemy Partners, who then sold to a consortium of banks in 2008. In 2002 it became a founding member of the Fenestration Self-Assessment Scheme (FENSA). In January 2010, Anglian Windows founder, George Williams, died following an illness.

In 2015, the investment group Alchemy Partners bought back ownership as Anglian Group's majority shareholder.

In March 2020, in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Anglian filled government guidelines and suspended operations until it was safe to resume. Although there was limited communication with customers, Anglian didn’t furlough all staff to enable them to keep in touch with customers with partially complete and unsafe works. During its hiatus, the company added an online supply only catalogue to their website in summer 2020. The company began taking new customer orders again in June 2020 conducting remote consultations with customers, a market first, although it did not start to complete the backlog of existing work until September 2020.