Lyle Shipping Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Financial services Insurance broking & agency services
  • Extraction Oil & gas extraction services
  • Transport services Shipping services - long distance, inc ship ownership & management
  • Food & tobacco processing Sugar refining & sugar products manufacture
  • Wood, straw, etc, products manufacture Wooden containers production inc coffins & cooperage

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Traced origins to the early 18th century when Lyle family were merchants at Greenock, later diversifying into coopering and shipowning. As Kerr & Lyle, emerged as major Greenock shipowners by mid 19th century. Lyle family diversified into sugar refining, creating the largest refining business at Greenock which, as Abram Lyle & Sons Ltd, merged with Henry Tate & Sons Ltd in 1921 to create Tate & Lyle Ltd. Lyle family's shipping interests, by then modest, reorganised in 1890 into Lyle Shipping Co Ltd which was entirely separate from sugar refining business. By then Glasgow based. Reformed 1903. Developed into a moderate sized tramp shipping business. From 1960s renewed fleet with bulk carriers and from 1970s diversified into support services for North Sea oil industry and insurance broking. 1968 joined with H Hogarth & Sons Ltd to established Scottish Ship Management Ltd to mange their fleets

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