Following this purchase, the Armitage Shanks brand continued in the United Kingdom, and their former export markets. American Standard were acquired by Bain Capital in February 2007, and is now majority owned by Sun Capital Partners.

Where are Armitage Shanks taps made?

Our factory in Armitage, Staffordshire remains the only large scale ceramics manufacturing operation in the UK, producing millions of toilets and basins annually, each proudly bearing the name Ideal Standard or Armitage Shanks.

Who founded Armitage Shanks?

Armitage Shanks, founded as a small pottery by Thomas Bond in the Staffordshire village of Armitage, was sold at auction in 1867 to the aptly named Reverend Edward Johns. A century later, in 1965, the company went public, and four years after that merged with a Scottish firm, Shanks Holdings.