Private company
Birthdays
British greeting cards retailer
Birthdays was a British greeting card retailer. The business originated in 1966, when Ron and Gail Wood started a greeting-card wholesaler in Bury, Greater Manchester; it was incorporated in 1969 as Ron Wood Greeting Cards Holdings. The Birthdays retail format was introduced in 1986, and the range broadened to include plush toys, ornaments and novelty items.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industryretail1
- HeadquartersLoughton1
- Websitewww.birthdays.co.uk
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Birthdays was a British greeting card retailer. The business originated in 1966, when Ron and Gail Wood started a greeting-card wholesaler in Bury, Greater Manchester; it was incorporated in 1969 as Ron Wood Greeting Cards Holdings. The Birthdays retail format was introduced in 1986, and the range broadened to include plush toys, ornaments and novelty items. The company was renamed Birthdays Greeting Cards in 1996, after Wood sold his holding to a management buy-in. Clinton Cards acquired the chain, by then around 500 shops, in 2004. Birthdays was placed in administration in 2009, and the brand was discontinued in 2012 when Clinton Cards itself collapsed.2
Products and brands
- stationery
Listed on Wikidata.1
Subsidiaries and ownership
Owners
From Wikidata.1
Timeline
- 1966Founded Founded1
Links
- Websitewww.birthdays.co.uk1
- WikipediaBirthdays (retailer)
- WikidataQ4917070
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataBirthdays on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaBirthdays on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsBirthdays photo by John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0