Talk:EKCO

Ekco Lighting Limited, Ekco-Ensign Electric Ltd

There's no information about Ekco Lighting Limited in this article. There's some information about them here . Seems to have changed its name from Ekco-Ensign Electric Ltd in 1967 . Seems to have become related to Thorn Lighting at some point. Sadg4000 (talk) 11:37, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Ekco Ensign

According to The Times newspaper archive, Ensign Lamps was based in Preston, and was acquired by Ekco in 1943. In 1950, Ekco sold 51% of Ekco-Ensign Electric Ltd. to Thorn Electrical Industries. Following the merger of Ekco with PYE in the early 60s, the combined group disposed of its share holding in Ensign sometime afterwards. (A. Carty (talk) 13:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC))

The EKCO company were also quite prominent in post-war airborne radar - see here; — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 20:59, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Ekco household products in U.S.

In the USA there's a line of household (primarily kitchen) products -- can openers, graters, and the like -- marked "EKCO". Is that this company? I had always guessed that EKCO in this case stood for Eastman Kodak Corporation and that this "EKCO" had been spun out at some point, since Eastman manufactured all sorts of random stuff to use up excess capacity in the plants where it made industrial and photographic equipment at one point or another — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tls (talk • contribs) 06:52, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

The American company mentioned above was founded in 1888 by Edward Katzinger in Chicago, Illinois and later became known as the EKCO® Housewares Company. It would appear to be an entirely separate entity from the British EKCO company.(A. Carty (talk) 13:10, 27 February 2011 (UTC))

I would like to see this info added to the article. I only hesitate because it's relevant only to the U.S. David Spector (talk) 00:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Eric Coles DOB

I have removed the date as it seems to be quoted differently in various places - either the 4th or 14th July. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 17:14, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

EKCO or Ekco?

These two styles seem to be used at random. Does anyone have sources to standardise on one, or alternatively to describe which should be used in what circumstances? Masato.harada (talk) 16:28, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

My grandfather worked from 1953 for the business. The company didn't really use them in any standard. Products normally had EKCO, but literature had a mixture of usage. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 17:00, 3 April 2025 (UTC)