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Elders Limited is an Australian-based agribusiness company. Elder Smith & Co was founded in 1839 in South Australia by Alexander Lang Elder〔Fayette Gosse, ('Elder, Alexander Lang (1815–1885)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 133-134. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.〕 as a new arm of his family's Scottish based merchant and shipping business. Its core business was a trading company and commission agent for wool and other agricultural products for sale back to Britain. Elder believed there were good business opportunities for trade out of the colony which had been newly proclaimed in December 1836. Elder, Smith & Co should not be confused with the company now known as Elders Limited. The South Australian company Elder, Smith & Co Limited and the Victorian company Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited where acquired by the South Australian holding company Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited in 1963. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited (ACN 004045121) was then demerged in 1994 under the name of Elders Limited along with the right to use the well known trading name of "Elders". Elders Limited was acquired by Futuris Corporation Limited (ACN 004 336 636). The name was then changed to Elders Rural Services Australia Limited. Futuris Corporation Limited then changed its name to Elders Limited. The company once known as Elder, Smith & Co Limited that was registered in South Australia on 13 July 1882 (ACN 007 869 294) remained with Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited and is now known as Derel Esc Pty Ltd. Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited is now known as Foster's Group Pty Ltd and is owned by SABMiller plc based in London. Elders Limited therefore acquired the pastoral businesses of both Elder, Smith & Co Limited and Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited, however Elders Limited owns the company once known as Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited and not the company once known as Elder Smith & Co Limited. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited was registered in Victoria on 31 August 1893 and so the heritage of Elders Limited is more closely associated with the Victorian company Goldsbrough, Mort & Co Limited than with the South Australian company Elder, Smith & Co Limited from a legal viewpoint. In 1857 Richard Goldsbrough (1821-1886) established the business of R. Goldsbrough and Company with partner Hugh Parker in Melbourne. In 1881 the public company of R. Goldsbrough & Co Ltd was registered and in 1888 this company merged with the Sydney firm of Mort & Co to form Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd that was registered in Victoria on 31 August 1893. Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816-1878) established Mort & Co in 1862 which became Mort & Co Ltd in 1883. Mort pioneered the shipping of frozen meat from Australia to London. ==Founders== With the fledgling colony of South Australia only three years old, Alexander Lang Elder (1815–1885)〔 arrived in Port Misery (now Port Adelaide) in 1839 aboard the family-owned ''Minerva'' to launch a new arm of the Scottish-based merchant and shipping business. Alexander was a member of a Scottish merchant family which had decided there was real potential in the newly founded colony of SA and he was dispatched to both set up business and explore opportunities – particularly in goods that could be returned to Britain for sale, such as wool. Alexander battled for the next few years consolidating the business until the copper boom in the mid-north of South Australia in 1842 turned things around. He branched out as a metal broker and the company never looked back. Alexander’s brothers, William (1813–1882),〔Fayette Gosse, ('Elder, William (1813–1882)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 133-134. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.〕 George (1816–1897)〔Fayette Gosse, ('Elder, George (1816–1897)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 133-134. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.〕 and Thomas (1818–1897)〔Fayette Gosse, ('Elder, Sir Thomas (1818–1897)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 133-134. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.〕 joined Alexander but it was Thomas who stayed on to become an Australian while the other three eventually returned to Scotland and England. It was Thomas who realized the potential of the pastoral Outback and it was under his encouragement the business imported camels to arrange transport. This unlocked the vast interior of Australia, making it possible to tap into the Great Artesian Basin and the hidden water that made grazing viable. He was laying the foundations of a national business empire that would be built on the back of the sheep but which was funded with cash from the copper boom; cash that enabled him and his peers to acquire huge tracts of land. Alexander left South Australia in 1853. He settled in London in 1855, and acted as agent for the Adelaide company until 1884, when he and his sons established A. L. Elder & Company. William left soon after Alexander. George left in 1855. Thomas migrated to Adelaide in 1854 and worked with George for a year. After George departed, he formed Elder, Stirling & Co, a partnership with Edward Stirling,〔Hans Mincham, ('Stirling, Edward (1804–1873)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 200-201.〕 Robert Barr Smith〔Dirk van Dissel, ('Smith, Robert Barr (1824–1915)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 153-154.〕 and John Taylor. In 1856 Barr Smith married Thomas Elder's sister Joanna, and on Stirling and Taylor's retirement in 1863, Barr Smith and Thomas Elder formed Elder Smith and Co. In 1875, with Andrew Tennant,〔Gordon D. Combe, ('Tennant, Andrew (1835–1913)' ), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 255-256.〕 they formed the Adelaide Steamship Company. In 1888 Elder's Wool & Produce Co. Ltd, (a subsidiary of Elder Smith and Company), and Elder Smith and Company were amalgamated, and Peter Waite became chairman of directors of Elder Smith & Co. Ltd, "displaying remarkable ingenuity and initiative". He held this position for 34 years, resigning a few months before his death in 1922.〔 Elder was knighted in 1878 (KCMG) and made GCMG in 1887. He died at Mount Lofty in 1897. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elders Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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