British Sugar Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Swayne, Henry
- Lockett, Wm & Jno
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Peru
Sectors:
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Agriculture & fishing
Plantation management, sugar
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Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc
Sugar & molasses distribution
Notes:
Established 1900 to acquire the Peru sugar estates of the Swayne family. These had been accumulated to Henry Swayne, b1800, who had arrived in Peru as a merchant in the 1820s. By 1840s he was in difficulties as a merchant and resumed as a sugar planter. In the process the Swayne family became greatly indebted to Wm & Jno Lockett, Liverpool merchants with trading interests in Peru. In 1900 these debts were settled through the establishment of the British Sugar Co Ltd, in which Locketts had a substantial equity interest, and the transfer to it of the Swayne estates. By 1920 Locketts owned the business outright when its estates were sold to local investors
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Other Business Names:
- Swayne, Henry
- Lockett, Wm & Jno
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Peru
Sectors:
- Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, sugar
- Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Sugar & molasses distribution