The Dickinson Robinson Group, or DRG, was a listed British paper, printing and packaging company founded in 1966 as a result of a merger of John Dickinson Stationery Ltd. and E. S. & A. Robinson Ltd., creating one of the world's largest stationery and packaging companies.
Products with a high public profile included Sellotape, which it owned from the 1960s to the 1980s, and Basildon Bond, which dated from 1911.
[1] In 1989, Roland Franklin (Pembridge Associates) acquired DRG's packaging business with a leveraged buyout worth £900 million and the assets of that company were stripped.
[1] The John Dickinson stationery business was acquired by DS Smith in 1996[3] and, in turn, in 2005 by Hamelin, a French company.
This led to the closure of its production plant in Liverpool in 1983, as it proved too costly for DRG Cups to maintain a competitive position.