Harrisons & Crosfield Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Harrison, Daniel
- Harrison, Smith
- Crosfield, Joseph
- Elementis Plc
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading co & agency house activities
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Agriculture & fishing
Plantation management, palm oil
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Agriculture & fishing
Plantation management, coffee
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Agriculture & fishing
Plantation management, rubber
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Agriculture & fishing
Plantation management, tea
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
Tea & coffee trading & trade
Notes:
Traces origins to 1844 when established as tea and coffee merchants at Liverpool by Daniel and Smith Harrison and Joseph Crosfield. Moved to London 1855. After 1900 developed into a major plantation management business acting as agents to tea, coffee, timber, palm oil and rubber plantation companies in South East Asia, especially Malaya and North Borneo. These assets progressively acquired by local owners from 1950s when diversified into areas in UK such as timber and building supplies (Harcros), chemicals (Durham Chemicals), flavourings and animal feeds (Pauls, BOCM), etc. 1998 renamed Elementis Plc and disposed of non core assets to focus on speciality chemicals. Continues
Publications:
- British agency houses in Malaysia. Survival in a changing world by Drabble, John, & Peter J Drake
- Business, Government and the End of Empire. Malaya, 1942-1957 by White, Nicholas J
- Commerce in Rubber. The first 250 years by Coates, Austin
- Diversification strategies of British trading companies. Harrisons & Crosfield, c1900-c1980 by Jones, Geoffrey, & Judith Wale
- Europe and the Maritime World. A twentieth century history by Miller, Michael B
- Government and Business in the Era of Decolonization. Malaya, 1942-57 by White, Nicholas J
- Great Enterprise. A history of Harrisons & Crosfield by Pugh, Peter, & Guy Nickalls (ed)
- Harrisons & Crosfield. The quaker tradition by Unknown
- 'Joseph Crosfield of Reigate, 1821-1879' in J S Crosfield, The Crosfield Family. A history of the descendants of Thomas Crosfield of Kirkby Lonsdale who died in 1614 by Crosfield, John F
- Merchants as business groups. British trading companies in Asia before 1945 by Jones, Geoffrey, & Judith Wale
- Merchants to Multinationals. British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Jones, Geoffrey
- One Hundred Years as East India Merchants, 1844-1943 by Unknown
- Some Quaker firms of the nineteenth century by Marwick, William H
- Strategy of a British trading company in eastern territories. The case of Harrisons & Crosfield, 1844-1982 by Saruwatari, K
- 'Western capital and entrepreneurship. Strategy and structure' in R A Brown, Capital and Entrepreneurship in South East Asia by Brown, Rajeswary A
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Harrison, Daniel
- Harrison, Smith
- Crosfield, Joseph
- Elementis Plc
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading co & agency house activities
- Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, palm oil
- Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, coffee
- Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, rubber
- Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, tea
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland Tea & coffee trading & trade
Notes:
Traces origins to 1844 when established as tea and coffee merchants at Liverpool by Daniel and Smith Harrison and Joseph Crosfield. Moved to London 1855. After 1900 developed into a major plantation management business acting as agents to tea, coffee, timber, palm oil and rubber plantation companies in South East Asia, especially Malaya and North Borneo. These assets progressively acquired by local owners from 1950s when diversified into areas in UK such as timber and building supplies (Harcros), chemicals (Durham Chemicals), flavourings and animal feeds (Pauls, BOCM), etc. 1998 renamed Elementis Plc and disposed of non core assets to focus on speciality chemicals. ContinuesPublications:
- British agency houses in Malaysia. Survival in a changing world by Drabble, John, & Peter J Drake
- Business, Government and the End of Empire. Malaya, 1942-1957 by White, Nicholas J
- Commerce in Rubber. The first 250 years by Coates, Austin
- Diversification strategies of British trading companies. Harrisons & Crosfield, c1900-c1980 by Jones, Geoffrey, & Judith Wale
- Europe and the Maritime World. A twentieth century history by Miller, Michael B
- Government and Business in the Era of Decolonization. Malaya, 1942-57 by White, Nicholas J
- Great Enterprise. A history of Harrisons & Crosfield by Pugh, Peter, & Guy Nickalls (ed)
- Harrisons & Crosfield. The quaker tradition by Unknown
- 'Joseph Crosfield of Reigate, 1821-1879' in J S Crosfield, The Crosfield Family. A history of the descendants of Thomas Crosfield of Kirkby Lonsdale who died in 1614 by Crosfield, John F
- Merchants as business groups. British trading companies in Asia before 1945 by Jones, Geoffrey, & Judith Wale
- Merchants to Multinationals. British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Jones, Geoffrey
- One Hundred Years as East India Merchants, 1844-1943 by Unknown
- Some Quaker firms of the nineteenth century by Marwick, William H
- Strategy of a British trading company in eastern territories. The case of Harrisons & Crosfield, 1844-1982 by Saruwatari, K
- 'Western capital and entrepreneurship. Strategy and structure' in R A Brown, Capital and Entrepreneurship in South East Asia by Brown, Rajeswary A