L. Rose & Co: version 1
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| 1 | 1 | # L. Rose & Co <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: L. Rose & Co | |
| 5 | − | summary: Leith ship chandler turned lime-juice maker, trading from 1865, whose patented sweetened lime juice became Rose's lime juice cordial; Schweppes bought it in 1957. | |
| 6 | − | legal_name: L. Rose and Company Limited | |
| 5 | + | summary: Leith lime-juice firm behind Rose's lime cordial, incorporated in 1898, bought by Schweppes in 1957 and dissolved in 2022 as a Mondelez UK subsidiary. | |
| 6 | + | legal_name: L. Rose & Co. Limited | |
| 7 | + | registered_address: Cvr Global Llp Town Wall House, Balkerne Hill, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3AD | |
| 7 | 8 | country: GB | |
| 8 | − | founded: 1865 | |
| 9 | + | register_ids: GB-CH:00057029 | |
| 10 | + | founded: 1898-04-21 | |
| 11 | + | dissolved: 2022-06-03 | |
| 9 | 12 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 10 | 13 | ||
| 14 | + | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 15 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 16 | + | | -------- | ------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 17 | + | | owned_by | company/mondelez-uk-holdings-services | | 2016-04-06 | 2022-06-03 | | sourced | ^ch-00057029-psc | Person with significant control notified 6 April 2016: 75% or more of the shares and of the voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors; held until dissolution. | | |
| 18 | + | <!--/relations--> | |
| 19 | + | ||
| 11 | 20 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 12 | − | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 13 | − | | --------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 14 | − | | L. Rose and Company Limited | legal | en | 1898 | | | |
| 15 | − | | L. Rose and Co | name | en | | | | |
| 21 | + | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 22 | + | | --------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | | |
| 23 | + | | L. Rose & Co. Limited | legal | en | 1898-04-21 | 2022-06-03 | | |
| 24 | + | | L. Rose and Company Limited | name | en | 1898 | | | |
| 25 | + | | L. Rose and Co | name | en | | | | |
| 16 | 26 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 17 | 27 | ||
| 18 | 28 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 19 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 20 | − | | --------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ---------- | ------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 21 | − | | graces | https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/L._Rose_and_Co | Grace's Guide: L. Rose and Co | 2026-09-21 | Grace's Guide | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 22 | − | | wikiroses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%27s_lime_juice | Wikipedia: Rose's lime juice | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | | | |
| 29 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 30 | + | | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 31 | + | | graces | https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/L._Rose_and_Co | Grace's Guide: L. Rose and Co | 2026-09-24 | Grace's Guide | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 32 | + | | wikiroses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%27s_lime_juice | Wikipedia: Rose's lime juice | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | | | |
| 33 | + | | ch-00057029 | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00057029 | Companies House: L.ROSE & CO.LIMITED overview | 2026-09-24 | Companies House | registry | | 00057029 | | | | | | |
| 34 | + | | ch-00057029-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00057029/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: L.ROSE & CO.LIMITED persons with significant control | 2026-09-24 | Companies House | registry | | 00057029 | | | | | | |
| 35 | + | | ch-00057029-filings | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00057029/filing-history | Companies House: L.ROSE & CO.LIMITED filing history | 2026-09-24 | Companies House | registry | | 00057029 | | | | | | |
| 23 | 36 | <!--/references--> | |
| 24 | 37 | ||
| 25 | 38 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 26 | − | L. Rose & Co was the Leith firm behind the Rose's brand of lime cordial: Lauchlan Rose set it up in 1865 to supply ships with provisions, including lime juice, patented a way of preserving citrus juice with sugar rather than alcohol in 1867, and opened the first lime juice factory on Commercial Street in Leith in 1868.[^graces][^wikiroses] It was registered as a public company, L. Rose and Company Limited, in 1898, with capital of £150,000, as lime-fruit growers and proprietors of Rose's lime juice and lime juice cordial.[^graces] | |
| 39 | + | L. Rose & Co was the Leith firm behind the Rose's brand of lime cordial: Lauchlan Rose set it up in 1865 to supply ships with provisions, including lime juice, patented a way of preserving citrus juice with sugar rather than alcohol in 1867, and opened the first lime juice factory on Commercial Street in Leith in 1868.[^graces][^wikiroses] The limited company, L. Rose & Co. Limited, was incorporated on 21 April 1898 and was dissolved on 3 June 2022 after a members' voluntary winding up; its last registered shareholder was Mondelez UK Holdings & Services Limited.[^ch-00057029][^ch-00057029-psc][^ch-00057029-filings] | |
| 27 | 40 | ||
| 28 | − | The company bought lime estates in Dominica in the early 1890s — Bath and Elshall in 1891 by Grace's Guide, 1893 by Wikipedia's account — and later made calcium citrate from 1906 and citric acid crystals at Bath Estate from 1921, buying most of the island's limes.[^graces][^wikiroses] Its head office moved from the London docks to St Albans in 1940 after the Blitz, and the lime marmalade it became known for dates from the 1940s.[^graces][^wikiroses] Schweppes, then the largest group of soft-drink makers in Britain, bought the company in August 1957, and Schweppes merged with Cadbury in 1969.[^graces][^wikiroses] | |
| 41 | + | At its 1898 registration it had capital of £150,000, as lime-fruit growers and proprietors of Rose's lime juice and lime juice cordial.[^graces] The company bought lime estates in Dominica in the early 1890s — Bath and Elshall in 1891 by Grace's Guide, 1893 by Wikipedia's account — and later made calcium citrate from 1906 and citric acid crystals at Bath Estate from 1921, buying most of the island's limes.[^graces][^wikiroses] Its head office moved from the London docks to St Albans in 1940 after the Blitz, and the lime marmalade it became known for dates from the 1940s.[^graces][^wikiroses] Schweppes, then the largest group of soft-drink makers in Britain, bought the company in August 1957, and Schweppes merged with Cadbury in 1969.[^graces][^wikiroses] In its last years it was a non-trading company filing dormant accounts, with its registered office at Cadbury House in Uxbridge until the liquidators were appointed in October 2019.[^ch-00057029][^ch-00057029-filings] | |
| 29 | 42 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# L. Rose & Co <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: L. Rose & Co
summary: Leith ship chandler turned lime-juice maker, trading from 1865, whose patented sweetened lime juice became Rose's lime juice cordial; Schweppes bought it in 1957.
legal_name: L. Rose and Company Limited
country: GB
founded: 1865
<!--/identity-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| L. Rose and Company Limited | legal | en | 1898 | |
| L. Rose and Co | name | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ---------- | ------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| graces | https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/L._Rose_and_Co | Grace's Guide: L. Rose and Co | 2026-09-21 | Grace's Guide | publication | | | | | | |
| wikiroses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%27s_lime_juice | Wikipedia: Rose's lime juice | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
L. Rose & Co was the Leith firm behind the Rose's brand of lime cordial: Lauchlan Rose set it up in 1865 to supply ships with provisions, including lime juice, patented a way of preserving citrus juice with sugar rather than alcohol in 1867, and opened the first lime juice factory on Commercial Street in Leith in 1868.[^graces][^wikiroses] It was registered as a public company, L. Rose and Company Limited, in 1898, with capital of £150,000, as lime-fruit growers and proprietors of Rose's lime juice and lime juice cordial.[^graces]
The company bought lime estates in Dominica in the early 1890s — Bath and Elshall in 1891 by Grace's Guide, 1893 by Wikipedia's account — and later made calcium citrate from 1906 and citric acid crystals at Bath Estate from 1921, buying most of the island's limes.[^graces][^wikiroses] Its head office moved from the London docks to St Albans in 1940 after the Blitz, and the lime marmalade it became known for dates from the 1940s.[^graces][^wikiroses] Schweppes, then the largest group of soft-drink makers in Britain, bought the company in August 1957, and Schweppes merged with Cadbury in 1969.[^graces][^wikiroses]
<!--/about-->