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Elders IXL Limited (1982 - 1990)

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1982
To
1990

Summary

Elders IXL was formed in 1982 by the merger of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort and Henry Jones IXL. In 1982 Elders IXL acquired UK based Woodhall Trust plc (which included Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company), and the following year the company was re-organised in the following divisions: Pastoral, International, Finance, Materials and Food. Following the acquisition of Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) (1983), the divisions became: Pastoral, Carlton, Finance and International and a number of other business were sold. In 1987 the Company was re-structured as the Elders Brewing Group (see Forster's Brewing Group), Elders Agribusiness Group (see Elders Australia Ltd) and Elders Finance Group (see Elders Resources NZFP).

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Timeline

 1840 - 1853 A.L. Elder & Company
       1853 - 1856 Elder & Company
             1855 - 1881 R. Goldsbrough & Company
             1856 - 1863 Elder, Stirling & Company
             1877 - 1881 Australian Agency and Banking Corporation Limited
                   ? - 1965 Western Queensland Pastoral Company Limited
                   1849 - 1888 Mort & Company
                   1863 - 1888 Elder Smith & Company
                   1881 - 1888 R. Goldsbrough & Company Limited
                   1884? - 1939 Pearson Rowe, Smith & Company Pty Ltd
                   1888 - 1925 Bagot, Shakes & Lewis Limited
                   1889 - 1920 Younghusband, Row and Company Limited
                   1903 - 1918 Elders Shenton & Company
                         1882 - 1974 Squatting Investment Company Limited
                         1888 - 1963 Goldsbrough Mort & Company Limited
                         1888 - 1963 Elder Smith & Company Limited
                         1888 - 1976 Pitt, Son & Badgery Limited
                         1920 - 1971 Younghusband Limited
                                - 1981 Henry Jones (IXL) Limited
                               1963 - 1982 Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited
                                     1982 - 1990 Elders IXL Limited

Published resources

Books

  • Australia National Companies and Securities Commission, Report on the cross investments between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited and Elders IXL Limited, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1986. Details
  • Hewat, Tim, The Elders explosion: one hundred and fifty years of progress from Elder to Elliott, Bay Books, Sydney, New South Wales, 1988, 168 pp. Details
  • Kilgore, A., A globalisation of Fosters: a case study of Elders IXL, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, School of Business, Kingswood, New South Wales, 1990, 32 pp. Details
  • Poulos, Patricia, Elders and the real story, P. Poulos Books, Carringbah, New South Wales, 1994, 551 pp. Details

Online Resources

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 1 March 2000, Last modified: 6 April 2010