Dalgety & Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Agricultural goods distribution inc agricultural merchants & seedsmen
  • Food & tobacco processing Animal feed production
  • Merchanting & trade, international & inland Raw wool trading & trade

Notes:

Traced origins to Frederick G Dalgety, 1817-94, who established himself at Melbourne and Geelong, Australia, in 1845 as Dalgety, Borrodaile & Gore, a support business to sheep farmers, providing supplies and purchasing output as well as importing goods from Britain. Returned to UK and established London firm, Dalgety & Co, in 1854, dealing, inter alia, in colonial wool of which it became the largest importer in London. Opened many further branches in Australia and New Zealand. Incorporated 1884.1961 merged with New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd to become Dalgety & New Zealand Loan Ltd. Renamed Dalgety Ltd in 1970. In UK, post 1945, developed important interests in agricultural support industry and in 1979 acquired, inter alia, Spillers Ltd, grain millers and animal feed manufacturers. Following many disposals, changed name to PIC International Group Plc in 1998 and then to Sygen International Ltd in 2001

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