Glebe Sugar Refining Co
of Greenock
1865 Together with four partners (the principal one being John Kerr), Abram Lyle purchased the Glebe Sugar Refinery in Glasgow, and so added sugar refining to his other business interests.
1872 When John Kerr, the principal partner, died in 1872, Lyle sold his shares in Glebe and began the search for a site for a new refinery.
1905 On the death of John Kerr, senior, on 31st October 1905, Robert Kerr and Daniel Kerr, as the only other Partners of the Firm of John Kerr & Company, shipowners, acquired the right to his interest in that firm and in Glebe Sugar Refining Co, Greenock[1]
1929 The company would be wound up voluntarily; Alexander Smith Kerr, Sugar Refiner, Greenock, and James M'Kirdy Kerr, Chartered Accountant, Greenock, were appointed Joint Liquidators; all debts would be paid in full[2]
1968 The company was wound up voluntarily[3]