About Abacus Cards and Clare Maddicott Publications

Abacus Cards is one of the leading greeting card publishers in the UK, supplying retailers direct throughout the UK as well as exporting around the world through a network of overseas distributors. We pride ourselves in offering an imaginative and diverse range of greeting cards, manufactured to the very highest quality. The company was started in 1991 by Jeff Fothergill and Brian Carey, owners of the respected seed company Mr Fothergill Seeds. In 2008, Abacus purchased the art-led greeting card publisher Clare Maddicott Publications from its founding owners Richard & Clare Maddicott. Between the two brands Abacus supplies over 3,000 retailers in the UK alone. Abacus Cards is an approved supplier to the leading independent retailers’ buying group ‘Cardgains’. Abacus Cards is also a member of the ‘The Greeting Card Association’, the trade association for UK greeting card publishers. The association offers an extensive information resource for publishers, the press, students and anyone interested in greeting cards.Read their story