The company was founded by Chris Bryant in 1885 and initially traded in
Birmingham as
C. Bryant & Son. The founder's son, Eb, took over the business in 1928, assisted by the more experienced Frank Russon, who joined the Board at the same time. Bryant confined itself to local contracting until 1936 when the first speculative housing site was acquired. After
World War II, the company built new council housing to replace the slums in
Birmingham as well as undertaking
civil engineering work there. The late 1970s brought problems for Bryant. Summonses for corruption were issued against the Company and certain directors in 1977 and losses were incurred in Saudi Arabia in 1978: "Let’s face it, 1978 has not been our year." dating from the 1990s Bryant had confined its housing to its midlands home territory until 1976 when it opened a small southern region, but it was not until the early 1990s that regional expansion began on a wider scale. By the end of the decade, Bryant was building over 4,000 houses a year on a national basis. In 2007, Taylor Woodrow merged with
George Wimpey to form
Taylor Wimpey. ==References==