Over 100 years and still going strong

Sanderson is a family story with the formation of D Sanderson Bookbinders in going all the way back to 1899 making the business the UK’s oldest continually operating bookbinding and print finishers.

The business passed, through the Family, until Frank Sanderson, a Master Bookbinder and a Grandson of the founder, acquired the business in stages from 1946 through to 1971. Frank Sanderson sold the business in 1993 to two of his experienced workers, John Doherty and Stephen Turton, but he continued to attend Primrose Mill to help until his death aged 82 in 2004.

John and Stephen continue to run the business but the family connection is not however lost in that the Sanderson Family bought into the Company in 2010 to assist expansion and Frank Sanderson’s son-in-law is now a non executive director.

The business is still run based on the founding principle which is to produce quality work, finished on time, to a top standard and a fair price.