John Arthur Dixon was the British founder of the eponymous manufacturer of greetings cards and postcards, J. Arthur Dixon. In 1926, he moved to Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, where he bought a small printing business. Dixon was a keen photographer, and in 1937 he produced his first Christmas cards.
Production began in 1951 when he built a factory at Newport, Isle of Wight, leased from the Ministry of Aviation. In 1951, more than 14 million greetings cards were produced and in 1955, nearly 30 million postcards.
In 1956 a second factory was opened in Inverness and production there continued until the late 1970s when the factory closed.