Sellotape® dates back to 1937 when Colin Kininmonth and George Gray coated Cellophane film with a natural rubber resin, creating a 'sticky tape' product, which had been based on a French patent. They registered their product under the name 'Sellotape' and manufacturing soon commenced in Acton, West London.

Sellotape® is the leading brand of clear sticky tape in the UK and a registered trademark in 96 countries worldwide. The brand even has its own entry as a trademark in the Oxford Dictionary.

In the mid 1960's Sellotape® became part of the British packaging and paper conglomerate, Dickinson Robinson Group (DRG). In the late 1980's DRG was broken up and at that point the transformation of Sellotape® began.

In the 1990's, Sellotape® investment in new plants, systems and - above all - in the Sellotape® brand followed.

In 2002 Sellotape® was bought by Henkel Consumer Adhesives, part of the largest adhesives company in the
world.