found: James Finlay & Company Limited, manufacturers and East India merchants, 1750-1950, 1951:t.p. (James Finlay & Company Limited) fwd. (James Finlay & Co.)
found: Finlay's [house magazine], summer 1963:James Finlay & Co. Limited) p.37 (head office: 22 West Nile Street, Glasgow C.1.) ; spring 1989: t.p. (James Finlay P.L.C.) ; autumn/winter 2001: t.p. (James Finlay Limited) p.22 (in 1852, the then partnership of James Finlay & Co moved to 22 West Nile Street; moved to current building at no. 10/14 West Nile Street in 1977; the business was principally involved in the cotton and yarn trades in 1852; current focus is as an integrated tea business) ; summer 2009: p.16 (Company was founded in 1750 when James Finlay first went into business as a sole trader in cotton goods; the business acquired many partners; in 1909 incorporated as a private limited company, James Finlay & Company Limited; floated on the Glasgow and London Stock Exchanges in 1924; in 1981, re-registered as James Finlay Public Limited Company or James Finlay P.L.C.)
found: University of Glasgow. Archive Services website, viewed 31 July 2015(James Finlay & Co.; established by James Finlay in Glasgow in 1750; operated in overseas and UK markets, opening textile mills all over the world; around 1882 the firm began to diversify into tea estate management)
