In 1983, the business moved to its current location on Ludlow Hill Road in West Bridgford, Nottingham, having expanded it's operation with a further five slitting machines and taken on more staff to cope with the demand for its products.

Cole Fabrics diversified its product lines into decorative ribbon products and packaging accessories when they merged with Romandus Ribbons in 1998, who were based in Croydon at the time. Romandus relocated to Nottingham bringing a wealth of experience with it as well as more machinery requiring a further expansion of Cole’s manufacturing operation into the surrounding buildings.

1999 saw Cole Fabrics Plc expanding even further with the acquisition of Taytec, a specialist woven edge ribbon manufacturing operation in Red Scar Business Park, Preston, Lancashire, which allowed Cole Fabrics PLC to produce and dye its own high quality woven edge ribbon product lines.

The expansion continued in 2005 with the creation of Cole Fabrics (Far East) Ltd. Cole Fabric Plc and Cole Fabrics (Far East) Ltd. work together on shared projects and also work independently for a variety of customers across the world.

Cole Fabrics Plc established a joint venture in 2008 in Italy called Global Ribbons Italia Srl with an associate business from France, in order to offer both products from both businesses through a single outlet directly to the Italian market.

Cole Fabrics (Shanghai) Ltd was established in 2019 and operates from it's base in Shanghai.