Records of M Rogivue & Co Ltd, tea merchants, Glasgow, Scotland

Includes:  

• Administrative records;
• Shareholding records;
• Accounting records;
• Correspondence;
• Certificate of incorporation and agreement.

M Rogivue & Co Ltd, tea merchants,  Glasgow, Scotland, was formed  c1896 . Its principal business was selling tea in  Russia, although it also had an agency in  Istanbul, Turkey. The company had a long association with  James Finlay & Co Ltd, textile manufacturers, tea planters, and merchants,  Glasgow.  James Finlay & Co Ltd acted as  M Rogivue & Co Ltd's secretaries from  1897 , and in  1898  held shares in the company.  P R Buchanan & Co Ltd, tea planters,  London, England, acted as the company's agents in  London.  James Finlay & Co Ltd was  M Rogivue & Co Ltd's main tea supplier, but the company also dealt with  George Payne & Co Ltd, producers of tea, coffee, confectionery, and cocoa,  London. In  1917 ,  M Rogivue & Co Ltd lost all its assets in  Russia as revolution brought an end to the company's business. After this date the company accounts list shares in  Anglo-American Direct Tea Trading Co Ltd, tea planters,  Edinburgh, Scotland, as  M Rogivue & Co Ltd's only asset. By  1945 , the company existed as a non-trading concern.

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Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999and National Council on Archives, Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

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Collection catalogued by members of Glasgow University Archive Services staff. Catalogue converted to Encoded Archival Description by Michelle Kaye, Archives Assistant (Cataloguing), May 2012. Additional material catalogued and converted into Encoded Archival Description by Peter Morphew, Cataloguing Archivist, January 2016.