| Activity | Interests in tea, banking, coal, ice, shipping, flour, salt and engineering. Company was an offshoot of Balmer Lawrie & Co based in Calcutta. The company was floated as a public company shortly before WWII and by 1962 the company had formed Alex Lawrie Factors in London as a joint venture before merging with Walter Duncan & Goodricke in 1967.
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