The story
Founded by Martin Naughton in 1973.1
The company was incorporated on 23 August 1973, as Glen Electric in Newry, Northern Ireland, an electric heater manufacturer with ten employees. Dimplex, a large electric heating appliance manufacturer, was founded in the 1950s. The companies merged on 6 May 1977 to become Glen Dimplex.
Morphy Richards and Burco Dean Appliances were acquired by the Glen Dimplex Group in 1985, and were based in Mexborough near Doncaster, England.
Belling was acquired in July 1992, Roberts Radio in November 1994, Goblin Vacuum Cleaners in June 1998, LEC Refrigeration in March 2005, Robinson Willey in August 2010, Valor in September 2011, and Real Flame Australia in February 2016. Dimplex was the shirt sponsor of Southampton Football Club from 1993 until 1995.
In 2018 the Merseyside-based home appliances division, which makes cookers and refrigerators under the Britannia, Lec, New World and Stoves brands, announced a "streamlining" of operations, resulting in up to 300 of its 1,000 permanent staff at its Knowsley plant being made redundant.
From Wikipedia’s article on GlenDimplex, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4