History
1992 - Adare Group was formed through the acquisition of 14 (predominantly) print-related companies including Halcyon, Lexicon, Carwin, Kall Kwik, Prontaprint, Precission and Kalamazoo, Fairfield, Darley, GNE, CJ Fallon, Label Converters, Intellidata, Pillings.
2000 - Nelson Loane led an MBO and the core group of companies were re-branded as Adare Lexicon, Adare Halcyon, Adare Pillings, Adare Label Converters, Adare Carwin, Adare Intellidata and Adare Precision with a 'brands division' established which accounted for Darley, CJ Fallon, Kall Kwik, Prontaprint, GNE and Kalamazoo.
2003 - The business was restructured into 3 core areas of expertise: Print Management (Adare Carwin, Adare Pillings and Kalamazoo), Mailing Services (Adare Halycon, Adare Lexicon and Adare Intellidata) and Packaging (Adare Label Converters and Darley) with the brands division including CJ Fallon and On Demand Communications (Prontaprint and Kall Kwik).
March 2006 - Robert Whiteside (current CEO) led a £119.5m secondary management buy out which was backed by Bank of Scotland Corporate and which brought the core operating divisions under a single Adare brand to provide a single face to market.
January 2007 - The Executive team launched a new branding and strategic positioning to the market signalling our intention to become the leading marketing and customer communications business.
2007 - As we continue to establish a unique space in the marketplace and our marketing and customer communications proposition builds traction with existing clients, new clients and industry commentators, we dispose of a number of non-core businesses (CJ Fallon, Darley, Prontaprint and KallKwik), further reinforcing our key strategic focus.
Today - This focus is further demonstrated by our acquisition of IBM's former in-house creative studio from Adecco, the creation of an industry first multi-media communication centre, the development of a suite of industry-leading e-tools and the continued expansion of our international operations.
