Williams & Kettle
Williams & Kettle Limited with headquarters in Napier, New Zealand, owned a stock and station agency business and a general merchants business with branches throughout the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. Incorporated as a co-operative in 1891, it had been founded in 1885 by landowner and businessman Frederic Williams (1854–1940) with Nathaniel Kettle (1854–1940), a brother-in-law of John Roberts the local principal of Dunedin's Murray Roberts and a former Murray Roberts & Co employee.
| Former type | Public listed company
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| Industry | Stock & Station Agency, General Merchants
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| Fate | bought by Wrightson in 2005
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| Founded | 21 May 1891 in Napier, New Zealand
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| Founder | F W Williams and N Kettle
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| Defunct | 1 June 2005
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| Headquarters | Wilket House, Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand |
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| Area served | North Island East Coast — Poverty Bay and more
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