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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Wright and Greig

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Wholesale wine and whisky merchants, Cadogan Buildings, Cadogan Street, Glasgow[1]

1890 Wright and Greig Limited, 8 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, was incorporated, with capital of £150,000, to acquire and carry on the business carried on by George Wright and Robert Gillespie Greig, wholesale wine and spirit merchants and agents, trading under the firm of Wright and Greig, Glasgow and elsewhere.[2]

1918 The company went into voluntary liquidation in February.[3] The Dallas Dhu Distillery at Forres was sold as a going concern to J. P. O'Brien and Co Limited of Liverpool.[4]

1926 Acquired by Distillers Co[5]

1980. Part of Distillers Co

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Sources of Information

  1. http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1888_Book/Wright_&_Greig.htm
  2. Glasgow Herald 8 November 1890
  3. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13225/page/1062
  4. Forres News and Advertiser 30 March 1918
  5. The Times June 24, 1927
  • National Records of Scotland BT2/2072