Meredith Group

About the Meredith Group

Born in Fitzwilliam in the West Riding of Yorkshire, James Meredith at just 15 years of age, started a 5 year apprenticeship with a Leeds based office machine company, in order to become a qualified office typewriter mechanic.

Three years later and during the 2nd World War, James enlisted into the RAF as a Spitfire fighter plane mechanic. During his training, he was stationed briefly at Leconfield before being sent with his unit, off to North Africa. It was whilst at Leconfield, that on a rare night off coming into Hull, that he met Marjorie, his future wife.

After being de-mobbed in 1947, James was able to marry and resume his apprenticeship, spending the next two years commuting between Hull and Leeds.

Upon gaining his qualifications, the young couple started their own business in Hull, launching in August 1949. They worked initially from home, using the "front room" as a workshop and slowly the fledgling company grew, as did the family, leading eventually to a move into more spacious shop premises on Spring Bank in Hull.

Over the years, the company now trading as Meredith Group and still family owned, has grown to become a successful and well recognised office supplies business, covering a wide variety and range of products and services, as well as being a manufacturer of Office Furniture and operating now, from spacious premises in Reform Street, Hull. Meredith’s now serves a customer base, both trade and retail, in the East Riding of Yorkshire and North East of England, from Hull, Beverley, York, Bridlington and Scarborough locally, to Leeds, Bradford, Doncaster, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Wakefield and the rest of the UK