The Group Today
Walker Greenbank PLC is an international luxury interior furnishings group that designs, manufactures and markets wallcoverings, fabrics and complementary products.
The Brands
The brands are targeted at the mid to upper end of the premium market. They have worldwide distribution including prestigious showrooms at Chelsea Harbour, London and the D&D building, Manhattan, New York. Half of the brands’ turnover is sourced in-house from the Group’s own specialist manufacturing facilities.
The brands include:- Harlequin, Morris & Co, Sanderson, Scion and Zoffany.
Manufacturing
Anstey Wallpaper Company
Anstey Wallpaper Company is the world’s leading specialist commission printer of wallcoverings. The business operates at the premium end of the market, offering a unique combination of design, printing and finishing of wallcoverings by gravure, rotary, flexo, surface, screen and hand block printing methods. As well as production for the Walker Greenbank brands, Anstey also produces wallpapers for many third party customers in the UK and overseas.Anstey continues to invest in innovative techniques, including a scatter machine to produce exciting new texture effects and most recently in wide-width digital printing.
Standfast & Barracks
Situated in Lancaster, the Standfast and Barracks dye works was bought by Walker Greenbank PLC in March 2000. The business has a heritage stretching back almost 90 years and is acknowledged as a worldwide leader in its field, using a variety of conventional rotary and flatbed screen printing techniques to produce beautiful prints for many of the world’s finest design-led home furnishings and apparel brands. A programme of investments in the latest CAD and printing technology has positioned Standfast at the forefront of the digital revolution in fabric printing with a rapidly expanding customer base around the world.
Distribution
From Tilbrook in Milton Keynes the group distributes all its products and sampling worldwide. The 60,000 sq.ft. warehouse takes in all of the brand's products, which are labelled and racked for onward sale to the network of retailers supplied by the various brands throughout the UK and their worldwide customer base. This fast and efficient centre of excellence can in most cases deliver both samples and products within 48 hours of receiving an order.