Waddington

John Waddington Limited was a leading producer of stamp products in the UK. The company had been founded in the nineteenth century by Mr John Waddington and Wilson Barratt as Waddingtons Ltd. It was renamed John Waddington Ltd in 1905. The original Mr John Waddington resigned in 1913.

Over the years, they became a highly diversified group with several factories specialising in particular areas of printing - packaging, stationery, advertising, plastics, security printing, playing cards and, of course, postage stamps. Prior to 1970 they were sub-contractors to De La Rue and Format International.

They ceased stamp production upon acquisition of The House of House of Questa Limited by Waddington.