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companyID843
NameGREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LD.
companyName_zh青洲英坭公 [青洲鴻毛坭公司]
companyName_pinQingzhou yingni gongsi [Qingzhou hongmaoni gongsi]
dateStart1914
dateEnd1924
NationalityBRITISH
Buisness SectorE1
Founding1890
countryOriginalCHINA
locationMainHongkong
serviceTypeEngineering
Description

Producer of "Portland Cement" as early as 1914 and other building materials (drain pipers, fire bricks, fire clay and tiles) in 1924.

Advertised in the North China Daily News only. A 1924 NCDN advertisement advertised the product in the following laudative terms: "The GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO. LD. -- MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST PORTLAND CEMENT IN THE EAST. It is the only Cement used by the British Government of Hongkong -- Beware of imitations. Drain Pipiers, Fire Bricks, Fire Clay and Tiles. For further particulars apply to SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. "

Source/Reference: The Universal Dictionary of Foreign Business in Modern China, Sichuan People's Publishing House, 1995 (385-386)

香港商商水泥工业公司。1890 年〈或作1889 年及1886 年〉执业律师伊尹氏 (C. EWENS) 等主持开办。资本25 万元.澳门设分号,工厂设于澳门青洲.经营水泥生产等业务,年产水泥5 万余桶,德商瑞记洋行全权经理. 1894 年即增资至100 万元. 1899 年前添设香港深水湾及九jt"Hok-Un"工厂,改由旗昌洋行金权经理.其时顾问委员为遥罗驻香港领事这打(C. P. Chater)、伊尹氏、怡和洋行伙东铸麦克尤恩(A. P. MacEwen) 、旗昌洋行伙东铃休恩(R. Shewan) 、土木工程师柯伦治(Jas. Orange) 及华商李某.公司在上海、天津、广州、威海卫、福州、汕头诸埠业务,先后由"新旗昌"(即香港之"旗昌")、"怡和"、"安福"、"泰茂"等洋行代理. 1930年代中有资本300 万港元,公积金100 万港元。1940 年代尚且于记载,董事长为虾士甸(]. Scott Harston). 公司华名,香港称"青洲英泥公司",澳门称"青洲鸿毛呢有限么司".

Rough translation

Hong Kong business cement industry company. 1890 years or 1889 and 1886 years> practicing lawyer Yi Yin (C. EWENS) and other presided over. Capital of 250,000 yuan. Macao set up a semicolon, the factory located in Macao Qingzhou. Operating cement production business, with an annual output of more than 50,000 barrels of cement, the German business to remember the full manager of foreign investment in 1894 to increase to 1 million yuan. The Hong Kong Deepwater Bay and the nine-jt "Hok-Un" factory were replaced by Ching Cheong-hong's gold right manager, who consulted the Hong Kong Consul General in Hong Kong (CP Chater), Yiyin's, Jardine Matheson East AP MacEwen, R. Shewan, Civil Engineering Engineer Jasmine and Chinese businessmen Lee. The company is located in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Weihaiwei, Fuzhou Shantou Zhubu business, successively by the "new flag Chang" (that is, Hong Kong's "flag Chang"), "Jardine", "Anfu", "Thai Mao" and other foreign agents in the 1930s capital of 3 million Hong Kong dollars, Million Hong Kong dollars. In the 1940s, the record was written by the chairman of the board, and the chairman of the company was named "Scott Harston". The company name, Hong Kong called "Green Island British mud company", Macau called "

serviceNameCement, clay, tile
culturalGroupForeign, Western, European
MediumNorth China Daily News, newspaper, press
KeywordEngineering, building, construction, cement, portland, green, island, color, best, superlative, East, patronage, authority, government, testimonial, imitation, aware, hongkong, fire
PartnerSHEWAN, TOMES & COMPANY;
CompetitorONODA CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED; CHEE HSIN CEMENT COMPANY, LTD. (THE); HOLDERBANK FACTORY; JACKS & COMPANY, WILLIAM
PeopleEWENS, C; CHATER, C.P.; MACEWEN, A.P.; SHEWAN, R.; ORANGE, JAS; HARSTON, J. SCOTT;
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