Samnuggur+Jute+Factory

=[|Samnugger Jute Factory Company Limited]=

Company Number:SC000578 Date of Incorporation: 21 August 1874 Contact Details: 24 Great King Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 6QN Operating Details: Listed as active, but see company history Other names (if known): none Function of Company*: Preparation & spin of other textiles (2470) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Calcutta, registered in Edinburgh 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] GB0254 MS86/I

Scope/type: Minutes 1874-1976; shareholding records 1912-1966; ledgers 1933-1959; cash books 1935-1966; journal 1924-1975; balance sheets 1919-1976; annual reports 1904-1958; memoranda and articles of association 1874-1976; employees' records 1913-1950; order books 1926-1964; specifications; quotations and price lists 1874-c.1900; plans c.1874-1977 and technical drawings 1874-1896.

Conditions governing access/use: Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation.

Related records: See also the collections of Thomas Duff & Company Limited (held as GB0254 MS/86/V in the same archive)

Company History
This Calcutta-based company was floated in 1873 by Thomas Duff (previously manager of the Borneo Co) in conjunction with the brothers Alexander and James Nicoll and Joseph Johnston Barrie. Managed by William Smith (previously of Cox Brothers, Lochee) working for the agents, Messrs Schoene Kilburn & Co, the Samnuggur Jute Factory Co was particularly successful at a time (c.1875) when other Calcutta mills languished or failed, and proved the ability of the Calcutta mills to compete with Dundee for the American and Australian markets.

In 1883 the firm of Thomas Duff was incorporated as a limited company and took over the agency. An additional mill was built in 1901 on the opposite (north) bank of the River Hooghly at Bhaddressar. In 1972 a workshop was set up at Samnuggur [North] to produce components for mill machinery in the 'Duff' group. Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd merged with Victoria Jute Factory Co Ltd and Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd in 1969, 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 companies involved in Titaghur were latterly under the control of Azmara PLC (the holding company) until Azmara lost control of its property to its tenants in India over the course of 2001. While this company is listed as active, it does not actually have any functioning assets.

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