The Dickinson Robinson Group , or DRG, was a listed British paper, printing and packaging company founded in 1966 as a result of a merger of John Dickinson Stationery Ltd. and E. S. & A. Robinson Ltd., creating one of the world's largest stationery and packaging companies. Products with a high public profile included Sellotape , which it owned from the 1960s to the 1980s, and Basildon Bond , which dated from 1911.
7-481: In 1978, DRG took over the Royal Sovereign group of companies. In 1989, Roland Franklin (Pembridge Associates) acquired DRG's packaging business with a leveraged buyout worth £900 million and the assets of that company were stripped . In 1992, the packaging business was acquired by Bowater-Scott . The John Dickinson stationery business was acquired by DS Smith in 1996 and, in turn, in 2005 by Hamelin,
14-476: A French company. DRG Cups manufactured and distributed disposable paper cups throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, but with the emergence of the plastic cup , which could be produced more economically and was of higher quality, the company began to decline. This led to the closure of its production plant in Liverpool in 1983, as it proved too costly for DRG Cups to maintain a competitive position. The company
21-562: Is betraying Israel.". He concluded that Iran "should be treated as an extremely dangerous pariah." Franklin was married to Lady Nina Franklin. They resided in Jumby Bay , a private island off the coast of Antigua . Their son Martin Ellis Franklin is the co-founder and chairman of Jarden . Franklin died on 1 February 2024, at the age of 97. This biographical article about a person notable in connection with Judaism
28-666: The Pembridge group together with his son Martin E. Franklin . Together they undertook a series of transactions between 1987 and 1989, the largest of which was the $ 1.3 billion hostile takeover of the Dickinson Robinson Group (DRG). Franklin appointed his son as the chief executive officer of DRG, with the goal of breaking up the conglomerate via a series of asset sales. Franklin retired from active business in 1991, leaving Martin Franklin and Ian Ashken to oversee
35-722: The final DRG asset sales. In 1992 they returned to the US with the intention of using their experience at DRG to build, rather than break up companies. In June 2015, Franklin published an opinion piece in j. , a Northern California Jewish newspaper, arguing that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action , also known as the Iran nuclear deal, would be "the first step on the path to World War III." He went on to compare U.S. President Barack Obama to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain prior to World War II, suggesting, "Obama
42-573: Was a merchant banker. His sister was Rosalind Franklin , the scientist whose research led to discovery of the structure of DNA. His brother was writer, bibliographer, and antiquarian Colin Ellis Franklin . Franklin was a merchant banker, and a director of Keyser Ullman , the British merchant bank that failed in the 1973-74 banking crisis. Franklin had a long business partnership with the corporate raider James Goldsmith . As Goldsmith began winding down his US operations in 1987, Roland Franklin set up
49-613: Was eventually bought out by Polarcup (a subsidiary of Finland-based company Huhtamaki ), which opened a new paper cup manufacturing plant in Devizes , Wiltshire , in 1984. Roland Franklin Sir Roland Arthur Ellis Franklin (5 May 1926 – 1 February 2024) was a British-born Antigua and Barbuda -based merchant banker. Roland Franklin was born in 1926 into an affluent and influential British Jewish family. His father, Ellis Arthur Franklin (1894–1964),
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