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National Canning Co

From Graces Guide

Shortly after WWI, Wisbech Produce Canners was formed as a private company by Samuel Wallace Smedley, with some fruit growers, to bring to Britain canning techniques then in use in the USA.[1]

1931 Public company incorporated to acquire Wisbech Produce Canners

1933 Share issue. Controls British Fish Canners and Wisbech Produce Canners.[2]

1935 The 4th Ordinary General Meeting of the company with Samuel Wallace Smedley presiding [3]. Also owned S. W. Smedley and Co. Ltd.

1968 Imperial Tobacco Co acquired National Canning, maker of Smedley's canned and frozen foods[4]

1981 Sold to TKM Foods[5]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, Mar 02, 1931
  2. ↑ Daily Express - Friday 28 July 1933
  3. ↑ The Times (london, england), Thursday, Jul 25, 1935
  4. ↑ The Times Mar 19, 1968
  5. ↑ The Times, Apr 03, 1982
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