British Dyestuffs Corporation
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British Dyestuffs Corporation Ltd (BDC) was a British company formed in 1919 from the merger of British Dyes Ltd with
Background
By 1913, the Germans had provided 80% of the
In July 1915, British Dyes, Ltd., was created and bought Read Holliday & Sons of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. In 1919, Levinsteins merged with British Dyes, which became the country's largest dye maker and was renamed the British Dyestuffs Corporation Ltd.[2] Sir Joseph Turner and Dr. Herbert Levinstein became the joint managing directors of BDC.[2] The new company controlled 75% of the entire dye production in Britain, its capitalization was £10 million.[3]
BDC supplied a comprehensive range of dyes within a competitive market. Its most notable foreign competitors were
It became one of the four British chemical companies which merged in 1926 with
The company had manufacturing sites at
, North Ayrshire.See also
References
- ^ Colorants History[usurped]
- ^ a b c d "British Dyes Ltd./British Dyestuffs Corporation Ltd. - ICI Dyestuffs Division and predecessor companies archive - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ a b "British Dyestuffs Corporation and ICI". www.colorantshistory.org. Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ a b "British Dyestuffs Corporation". www.gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ "British Dyestuffs Corporation Limited | Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2021.