lts industry distribution founded january 1967 as blackall headquarters bristol united kingdom area served united kingdom key people bernard clark chairman michael hammond chief executive products wholesalers of printing graphics arts materials and equipment revenue 44 million gbp 2005 number of employees 256 2005 website www.litho.co.uk litho supplies plc is the largest independent supplier of analogue and digital printing and graphics arts products in the united kingdom uk . agfa bv acquired 100 % of the share capital of litho supplies in february 2011 it s unlikely therefore they would stock plates other than agfa . contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 financial performance 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in january 1967 by david blackhall and barry barrett as a division of their office equipment business . in 1980 the company was acquired by dickinson robinson group drg plc a multi national paper company based in bristol and became drg litho supplies a division of drg . drg was taken over by pembridge investments in 1989 and the management team bought out the company with help from 3i and the bank of scotland in 1990 . the company floated on the london stock exchange in 1993 ; the epic code is lts . now its value is shares are suspended administrators appointed and staff being laid off 1 acquisitions edit litho supplies have made many acquisitions ... . more information needed . on february 7 2005 litho supplies acquired systems builders and internet sbi . sbi supplies computer and electronic equipment . 1 on march 15 2005 litho supplies acquired united graphics limited ; a company that also supplies graphics arts materials and equipment . 2 financial performance edit year ended sales m profit loss before tax m net profit loss m basic eps p 31 december 2005 44.05 1.44 n a 4.95 31 december 2004 45.04 0.77 n a 1.83 references edit http community.printweek.com forums t 4820 . aspx pageindex 2 external links edit corporate web site . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title litho supplies & oldid 674188553 categories companies established in 1967companies based in bristolcompanies listed on the london stock exchange3i group companies1967 establishments in england navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 august 2015 at 07 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view