Swan Vestas
From Graces Guide
A brand of Matches made by Bryant and May
By 1899, the American match maker, The Diamond Match Company, had bought an existing match factory in the United Kingdom, at Bootle, near Liverpool, and installed a continuous match-making machine that could produce 600,000 matches per hour. Their matches were sold under the Captain Webb, Puck and Swan Vestas brand names.
1901 Bryant and May bought the assets and goodwill of the British Diamond Match Company; in this way the (American) Diamond Match Company acquired 54.5 percent of the share capital of Bryant and May.
1988 the name of Swan Vesta Ltd was changed name to Wilkinson Sword (High Wycombe) Ltd[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ London Gazette 9 January 1989