Victoria+Jute+Factory

=[|Victoria Jute Factory Company Limited]=

Company Number:SC001197 Date of Incorporation: 19 January 1883 Contact Details: 24 Great King Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 6QN, successor company is [|www.victoriajutemill.com], RBD Textiles Ltd, 16A Brabourne Road, KolKata 700 001, India Operating Details: Dissolved Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Preparation & spin of other textiles (1725) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Dundee to 1976, then to Calcutta Area of Operation: Calcutta, India


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
Held By: University of Dundee Archive Services, GB 0254 MS86/II

Scope/type: Minutes 1892-1976; share records 1883-1906 and 1919-1947; ledgers 1930-1972; cash books 1935-1964; journal 1924-1973; balance sheets 1918-1977; annual reports 1884-1965; memoranda and articles of association 1883-1979; letter books 1928-1982; employees' records 1925-1961; order books 1922-1964; plans 1928 and 1941-1973.

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Company History
This jute mill company was incorporated in 1883. Building of the mill was halted for about a year during a celebrated land dispute (1884-1886) with the Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd who saw the new mill as a threat to their labour supply. Thomas Duff & Co Ltd took over the agency of the company in 1888. In 1969 the Victoria Jute Factory Co Ltd was merged with the Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd and the Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd with the latter as the parent company and the Angus Company Ltd as a subsidiary of the group. In 1976 changes to the articles of association were adopted, reorganising the capital of the Company and transferring its residence to India, effectively passing management and control of the Company from Dundee to Calcutta. The mill was acquired by Azmara PLC, a Scottish holding company that also owned other Scottish jute mills, though it later lost control of the mill to its operating contractors in 2001. The mill is currently run by RBD Textiles (registered in India), and the Company has been dissolved in Scotland.

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