Low Brothers & Co., Dundee, Ltd, including Low Brothers & Co., Ireland, Ltd

Reference:GB 254 MS 100/8
Dates of Creation:1948-1987
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Scope and Content
Company records. 1959-1967; accounts, 1959-1972; ledgers and cash and account books, 1959-1987; miscellaneous financial records, 1976-1983; subsidiary companies' accounts. 1971-1972; seal books, 1960-1981; miscellaneous legal and business records, 1948-1987
Administrative / Biographical History
Low Brothers & Co. was a firm of jute merchants and was based in Dundee. Its origins can be traced to a jute bag-sewing firm, which was established in 1913 by William Low (Snr) and Peter Low. In the late 1950s it expanded into textile production, purchasing the small firm of Alexander Henderson and Co. This attracted the attention of Don Brothers Buist and Co. who wished to link their textile production concerns with textile merchants. Consequently in 1960 the two companies merged, with two Dons directors joining Lows' board and William Low (Jnr) of Low Brothers joining the board of Dons. Both companies continued to trade under their own names until internal reconstruction of the Don and Low group in the 1980s.
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Note
Low Brothers & Co. was a firm of jute merchants and was based in Dundee. Its origins can be traced to a jute bag-sewing firm, which was established in 1913 by William Low (Snr) and Peter Low. In the late 1950s it expanded into textile production, purchasing the small firm of Alexander Henderson and Co. This attracted the attention of Don Brothers Buist and Co. who wished to link their textile production concerns with textile merchants. Consequently in 1960 the two companies merged, with two Dons directors joining Lows' board and William Low (Jnr) of Low Brothers joining the board of Dons. Both companies continued to trade under their own names until internal reconstruction of the Don and Low group in the 1980s.
Archivist's Note
Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, December 2009. Amended August 2017
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Related Material
MS 100/10
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