Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

If you know something about any of these business please add a comment. You can do this without having to sign up for anything and can be anonomous if you prefer.



Saturday, August 7, 2010

Wilson Malt Extract Co Ltd

This is 80 Ward Street

Looking a bit the worse for wear these days but no doubt about who inhabited the building originally with this very bold inscription. Built in 1920 when it was closely connected withthe Dunedin Brewery. I am not entirely clear if they were part of a corporate group or if the had common shareholders. The malt business was obviously a supplier to the brewery at any rate.
Operations finally ceased on this site in 2000.
A expanded timeline and history of Maltexo (what Wilsons Malt Extract became eventually) is to be found here http://www.maltexo.co.nz/history.htm on the Maltexo company web site.


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