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Major music publishing house founded by Vincent Novello (1781-1861) and continued by his son (Joseph) Alfred Novello (1810-96). In 1846, Henry Littleton, formerly a partner, took over after AN's retirement; in 1867 he purchased Ewer & Co., the business thereafter known as Novello, Ewer & Co.

Printing business set up by Rowley Atterbury in 1950, eventually sold to a larger corporation in 1984.

Higgs & Co. (Printers) Ltd., printers, stationers and publishers of the local weekly newspaper, the Henley Standard, was incorporated on 10th May, 1979, although its roots go back a hundred years before that.

A gentleman call Thomas Octavius Higgs started a printing business in Henley in 1877 and built premises at Caxton House, on the corner of Reading Road and Station Road in 1885. At this time he also became the official printer for the Henley Royal Regatta programme.

In 1892 he gained the contract for printing the recently re-named Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, which had started life as the Henley Free Press in February 1885.

Charles Luker, the grandfather of the current president, joined Mr Higgs’s firm in the autumn of 1894, when he was not quite 18, in order to learn the printing trade, as his father printed the Faringdon Advertiser.

On Thomas Octavius Higgs’s death in 1896, the business passed to his widow Eliza, who sold it to a partnership from the Hobbs family, the local boatbuilders. Charles Luker also became a partner and eventually became sole proprietor in about 1900, from whence the firm was known as Higgs & Co.

Camden Music was founded by Andrew Skirrow in 1991 and is still active in the music publishing business today.

Independent funeral directors established in 1972.

In 1586 the University of Oxford's right to print books was recognized in a decree from the Star Chamber. This was enhanced in the Great Charter secured by Archbishop Laud from King Charles I, which entitled the University to print 'all manner of books'.
Delegates were first appointed by the University to oversee this process in 1633. Minutes of their deliberations are recorded dating back to 1668. The structure of Oxford University Press (OUP) as it exists today began to develop in a recognizable form from that time.
The University also established its right to print the King James Authorized Version of the Bible in the seventeenth century. This Bible Privilege formed the basis of OUP's publishing activities throughout the next two centuries.
From the late 1800s OUP began to expand significantly, opening the first overseas OUP office in New York in 1896. Other international branches followed, including Canada (1904), Australia (1908), India (1912), Southern Africa (1914).

Established by Thomas Harrison in 1750, the company primarily printed postage stamps, banknotes, passports and gift vouchers throughout their history. The company was sold in 1997.