Creightons Snapshot
Dab, smear, buff, and rub: Creightons churns out a crop of nature-inspired toiletries. The company is a global contract manufacturer of branded and private label personal care products. Founded as Creightons Laboratories in 1952, the company serves department stores, and supermarket and drug store chains. Its offerings include salon hair care, body and hand creams and washes, foot care, body and home fragrances, men's shaving items, self-tanning products, and some cosmetics. Creightons first traded on the London Stock Exchange in 1986; it transferred manufacturing to its Potter + Moore Innovations facility in Peterborough in 2006. The company's products are sold mainly in the UK, but also North America.