Summary

Originally registered in the United Kingdom in 1904. As a result of an English Court decision on taxation the company was reregistered in Victoria in 1927. Consolidated Investment Co Ltd, which had been incorporated in September 1927 as a vehicle to takeover the assets of the English company, changed it's name two months later to British Tobacco Co (Australia) Ltd. After fifty years of trading under the name of British Tobacco the company changed it's name in 1977 to Allied Manufacturing & Trading Industries Ltd.

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Timeline

 1927 Consolidated Investment Company Limited
       1927 - 1977 British Tobacco Company (Australia) Limited
             1973 - 1977 Allied Manufacturing & Trading Industries Limited
                   1977 - 1989 Amatil Limited
                         1989 - Coca-Cola Amatil Limited

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• British Tobacco Company (Australia) Limited records; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details