L. Rose & Co: version 2
Saved 2026-09-24 22:13 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled owner_unknown from Companies House: the company is L.ROSE & CO.LIMITED (00057029), incorporated 21 April 1898, dissolved 3 June 2022 after a members' voluntary liquidation (liquidators appointed October 2019). Its only person with significant control, notified 6 April 2016, was Mondelez UK Holdings & Services Limited, which already has a page with its own owned_by chain, so I added owned_by company/mondelez-uk-holdings-services (2016-04-06 to 2022-06-03, sourced, ^ch-00057029-psc). Identity now has register_ids GB-CH:00057029, founded 1898-04-21 (the legal entity; 1865 lineage stays in About), dissolved 2022-06-03, the last registered_address, legal_name as the register gives it, and a new summary. Aliases: added the register legal name; the Grace's Guide form "L. Rose and Company Limited" is now type name. About lede now covers incorporation, dissolution and last shareholder; the Dominica, Schweppes 1957 and dormant-years facts are in the second paragraph. Re-checked Grace's Guide. Added References rows ch-00057029, ch-00057029-psc and ch-00057029-filings. Gaps: the direct shareholder between the 1957 Schweppes purchase and the 2016 PSC notice is not shown online (the AR01 shareholder lists are scans), so no row exists for that period. The entity has no Wikidata item. No Meta or Images section.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# L. Rose & Co <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: L. Rose & Co
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.
legal_name: L. Rose & Co. Limited
registered_address: Cvr Global Llp Town Wall House, Balkerne Hill, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3AD
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:00057029
founded: 1898-04-21
dissolved: 2022-06-03
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| L. Rose & Co. Limited | legal | en | 1898-04-21 | 2022-06-03 |
| L. Rose and Company Limited | name | en | 1898 | |
| L. Rose and Co | name | en | | |
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## 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 | 2026-09-24 | 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 | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
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## 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] 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]
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]
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