Fox Brothers

Fox Brothers & Co
IndustryClothmaking
FoundedWellington, Somerset, (1772 (1772)) Present entity, (1996 (1996))
FounderTextile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
OwnerDeborah Meaden (shareholder) & Douglas Cordeaux (shareholder)
Number of employees
37

Fox Brothers & Co is a clothmaker based in Wellington, Somerset, England. The company is one of the few working cloth mills still producing cloth entirely in England since 1772,. Throughout the twentieth century the business remained under the management of successive generations of the Fox family. Dorothy Lomas records that Lloyd Howard Fox joined the firm in 1923 and oversaw its financial administration, while his son David Lloyd Fox later served as Sales Director and Vice-Chairman. In the late twentieth century David’s sons, Simon David Fox and Benjamin John Fox, also held directorial roles prior to the company’s restructuring in the mid-1990s. although the present company was incorporated in 1996.

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