Private company
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British Company
Artex Ltd. is an English-based manufacturer of building materials.2 It is headquartered in Coventry, United Kingdom.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Artex Ltd. is an English-based manufacturer of building materials.2
What Artex Ltd. reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.
Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1
Artex was started in 1935, with the name Artex coming from "Asbestos Reinforced TEXtured Coating".
Artex became part of the BPB Group of companies in 1966. It merged with Blue Hawk sometime in 1997. Blue Hawk had been bought by the BPB Group in 1972. BPB was in turn purchased by Saint-Gobain, a large building products company based in France in November 2005.
From Wikipedia’s article on Artex Ltd., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5
It owns several brands, some of which have become genericized and are known and recognised as household words. Its brands include:
Artex Textured Coating
Gyproc Plasterboard
Thistle Plaster
Blue Hawk
From Wikipedia’s article on Artex Ltd., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5
From Wikidata.1
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