Titaghur+Jute

=[|Titaghur Jute Factory Company Limited]=

Company Number: SC001273 Date of Incorporation:16 August 1883 Contact Details: 24 Great King Street, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH3 6QN Operating Details: Dormant (see history) Other names (if known):Titaghur PLC(1989-2000), Azmara PLC (2000 onward) Function of Company*: Preparation and spin of other textiles (1725) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Dundee (to 1979), Calcutta (from 1979 onwards) Area of Operation: Calcutta, exporting worldwide


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

Records
Held By: University of Dundee Archive Services GB0254 MS 86/III

Scope/type: Minutes 1883-1974; share records 1918-1969; ledgers 1931-1972; cash books 1932-1979; balance sheets 1884-1906, 1924-1976; annual reports 1900-1958; memoranda and articles of association 1883-1979; letter books 1928-1982; employees' records 1913-1956; miscellaneous technical records 1890-1897; plans 1878-1976; technical drawings 1887-1897.

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Company History
This Calcutta-based jute mill company was floated in 1883 as a result of funds built up by its parent company, the Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd. Thomas Duff & Co Ltd acted as agents for the Company from this time. In 1969 Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd became the parent company in a group formed by a merger with the Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd and the Victoria Jute Factory Co Ltd with the Angus Company Ltd as a subsidiary. In 1972 Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd acquired the Dundee companies of Hardie and Smith Ltd, Dundee Brattice and Waterproofing Co Ltd, and A & S Henry & Co (Dundee) Ltd.

Control and management of the company transferred from Dundee to Calcutta in 1976, and the Titaghur Group Head Office removed to premises at Hardie and Smith’s Baltic Works; Meadow House, the original offices, was sold at this time. In 1978 Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd sold 51% of its interest in A & S Henry & Co (Dundee) Ltd (and its subsidiaries) to Asiatic Jute Co Boston, and the following year new articles of association were adopted by the Company. The Company changed its name to Titghur PLC in 1989. Most recently the Company changed its name to Azmara PLC in 2000, though this Company has subsequently been listed as dormant following the loss of control of its jute mills to its operating contractors in a legal battle.

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