Balfour Williamson
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1851 |
| Seat | Liverpool |
Balfour Williamson & Co was a shipping company based in Liverpool , England , and later also an export and shipping company. Lonmin bought the company and incorporated it into its corporate structure.
history
The company was founded in 1851 by two young men from Fife , Scotland , Alexander Balfour and Stephen Williamson. For a while they were completed by a third partner named David Duncan. It traded with companies in South America and had offices in Valparaiso , Chile and San Francisco .
Williamson and Duncan were responsible for the very profitable corporate activities in Chile. A subsidiary called the Williamson-Balfour Company was also established there. She was involved in many activities, especially sheep farming on Easter Island between 1897 and 1953.
The company's first ship was the Gardner , which was promptly replaced by the Santiago, a 455-ton barque . The Santiago was sold in 1888 and the wreck was later used as a coal storage facility in Adelaide , Australia , where it remains to this day
The company returned to family ownership in October 2016 when Guthrie Williamson, the great-great-grandson of founder Stephen Williamson, acquired it.
credentials
- ↑ Competition Commission report (1981): The Observer and George Outram and Company para 4.15
- ^ Methil Heritage website
- ^ Fischer, SR (2005) Island at the Edge of the World
- ^ Methil heritage website