Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Amari

From Graces Guide

Aluminium Stockholders, later also distributors of plastic products.

1963 Amari Mines, tin miner, acquired Marshall Lewis, metal merchants and brokers, Ravensbourne Metal and Southern Metal Warehouses, stockists of non-ferrous metals[1]

1964 Name changed to Amari.

1969 Involved with Wimpey and John Brown and Co in building an aluminium smelter in Bahrein[2]

1972 Amari acquired the remaining UK interests of Johnson and Bloy, including printing inks and blocking foils[3]

1978 Acquired Century Aluminium.

1980 Amari taken over by BP.

1983 BP sold Amari to an employee and institutional buy-out - the new name being Amari Holdings plc.

1988 Acquired by Glynwed[4]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, April 1, 1964
  2. The Times, February 7, 1969
  3. The Times, June 13, 1972
  4. The Times, August 3, 1989