British Molasses Co
1915 The British Molasses Company Limited was registered as a private company, with capital of £20,000, to import, export, and deal in molasses and sugar, to acquire all or any of the assets of the molasses business carried on by Marquis, Clayton and Co, at 4 Chapel Street, Liverpool, and to carry on the same and the business of produce brokers, and dealers, refrigerators, shipowners, and builders, charterers of ships and other vessels, barge and lightermen, warehousemen, etc.[1]
1926 The United Molasses Co was incorporated as public company on 1st January as a holding company for the British Molasses Co Ltd and the associated Pure Cane Molasses Co Ltd, and took over a fleet of 8 tankers[2]
1931 It was announced that the United Molasses Co had decided to liquidate the British Molasses Co and the Pure Cane Molasses Co, two of their subsidiary companies. The trading of the two subsidiaries would in future be carried on by the parent company.[3]