Boustead & Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Boustead, Edward
- Boustead, Edward, & Co
- Schwabe, Gustave
- Boustead Holdings Berhad
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Malaysia
- Penang, Malaysia
- Singapore
Sectors:
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading & trade
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading co & agency house activities
Notes:
Traced origins to Edward Boustead, d1888, who arrived in Singapore in c1828 and established a merchant house there soon afterwards. Soon in partnership with Gustave Schwabe as Boustead & Co; Schwabe had strong connections with a Liverpool house. Subsequently developed an important presence in Malaya and established offices at Penang and, in c1851, at London where known as Edward Boustead & Co. Exported commodities from Malaya and imported goods from Britain. Developed as an agency business providing services to local, notably rubber plantations, and overseas businesses as well as taking investment stakes in local businesses. Incorporated 1918. Reorganised in 1960 when Edward Boustead & Co of London became a separate business from the Malaysia / Singapore business of Boustead & Co Ltd which was locally registered. The latter was renamed Boustead Holdings Berhad in 1966 and was Malaysian owned from 1976. Continuing in 2020
Publications:
- A Boustead Chairman Looks Back by Roper-Caldbeck, G R
- A Plantation Family by Green, Daniel
- Boustead & Co Ltd. East India merchants, established 1828 by Unknown
- Boustead & Co Ltd. Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya. East India merchants, established in 1828 in Singapore by Unknown
- Boustead 1828 by Chew, Melanie
- Bousteads by Unknown
- British agency houses in Malaysia. Survival in a changing world by Drabble, John, & Peter J Drake
- Commerce in Rubber. The first 250 years by Coates, Austin
- Merchants, Bankers, Governors. British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786-1920 by Drake, Peter J
- 'Sino British mercantile relations in Singapore's entrepôt trade, 1870-1915' in J Ch'en & N Tarling, Studies in the Social History of China and South East Asia. Essays in memory of Victor Purcell by Chiang, Hai Ding
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Boustead, Edward
- Boustead, Edward, & Co
- Schwabe, Gustave
- Boustead Holdings Berhad
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Malaysia
- Penang, Malaysia
- Singapore
Sectors:
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading & trade
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading co & agency house activities
Notes:
Traced origins to Edward Boustead, d1888, who arrived in Singapore in c1828 and established a merchant house there soon afterwards. Soon in partnership with Gustave Schwabe as Boustead & Co; Schwabe had strong connections with a Liverpool house. Subsequently developed an important presence in Malaya and established offices at Penang and, in c1851, at London where known as Edward Boustead & Co. Exported commodities from Malaya and imported goods from Britain. Developed as an agency business providing services to local, notably rubber plantations, and overseas businesses as well as taking investment stakes in local businesses. Incorporated 1918. Reorganised in 1960 when Edward Boustead & Co of London became a separate business from the Malaysia / Singapore business of Boustead & Co Ltd which was locally registered. The latter was renamed Boustead Holdings Berhad in 1966 and was Malaysian owned from 1976. Continuing in 2020Publications:
- A Boustead Chairman Looks Back by Roper-Caldbeck, G R
- A Plantation Family by Green, Daniel
- Boustead & Co Ltd. East India merchants, established 1828 by Unknown
- Boustead & Co Ltd. Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya. East India merchants, established in 1828 in Singapore by Unknown
- Boustead 1828 by Chew, Melanie
- Bousteads by Unknown
- British agency houses in Malaysia. Survival in a changing world by Drabble, John, & Peter J Drake
- Commerce in Rubber. The first 250 years by Coates, Austin
- Merchants, Bankers, Governors. British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786-1920 by Drake, Peter J
- 'Sino British mercantile relations in Singapore's entrepôt trade, 1870-1915' in J Ch'en & N Tarling, Studies in the Social History of China and South East Asia. Essays in memory of Victor Purcell by Chiang, Hai Ding