Chimo Holdings
This cutlery and silverware firm was launched in 1989. The owner and managing director is Yorkshire-born Chris Hudson, who after serving as an officer in the merchant navy and working abroad for several years, returned to Sheffield to take control of his maternal family’s silverware business. Chimo (a Canadian Innuit word of greeting and friendship) occupied the old factory of Gee & Holmes in Eyre Lane (which was renamed White Rose Works). According to one account: ‘Here, in a modest two-storey brick bu....
