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Boustead
Boustead may refer to the following: *Boustead & Co, a London merchant banking business *Boustead Singapore, a Singapore engineering company *Boustead Group, a Malaysian company *Boustead Hill, an English village *Boustead Cup, an annual English rowing race People with the surname *Edward Boustead (1800–1888), an English businessman *Hugh Boustead, a British officer, pentathlete, and diplomat *Kerry Boustead, an Australian rugby league footballer {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boustead & Co
Boustead & Co. is an asset management and corporate finance company created by Edward Boustead in 1828 that still exists today. History In 1828, Edward Boustead arrived in Singapore on board the British ship ''Hindustan''. In the same year, he established a trading company, Boustead & Co. Boustead & Co specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery. Boustead & Co commissioned Irish civil architect, George Drumgoole Coleman to design the company's headquarters alongside the Singapore River. The warehouse was known as "the house of seven and twenty pillars", located around the corner from High Street. In 1834, Boustead & Co partnered with German-born merchant, Gustav Christian Schwabe in the Singapore company. Schwabe and his cousin established Sykes Schwabe & Co in Liverpool. The Liverpool partner would export ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boustead Singapore
Boustead Singapore Limited (SGX: F9D) is an engineering services group listed on the Singapore Exchange. Headquartered in Singapore. The group's engineering divisions specialise in energy-related engineering, water & wastewater engineering and industrial real estate solutions. Boustead also has a geo-spatial technology arm which distributes Esri geographic information systems to major markets across Australia and South East Asia. Boustead is listed on the MSCI Global Small Cap Index for Singapore and the FTSE ST Small Cap Index. History Early history Edward Boustead, an English businessman, founded Boustead & Co in 1828. The trading company specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery. With the development of a wide trading network in Singapore, trade credit and finance became increasingly important to ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boustead Group
Boustead Holdings Berhad (BHB) () is a Malaysian corporation with over 16,000 employees across more than 80 listed and non-listed companies in Malaysia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. It is an affiliate of the Malaysian military. BHB was founded in 1828 as ''Boustead & Co'' in Singapore by Edward Boustead, an English businessman. The company was incorporated in 1961, and is currently listed on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchanges. History In 1975, Boustead & Co split into four entities: Boustead Plc in London (which was later reorganized as Boustead & Co), Boustead Holdings Berhad (BHB) in Malaysia, Boustead Singapore Limited, and Boustead China Co, Ltd. The major shareholder of BHB is Malaysian military pension fund, Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT). Organisation The Group’s business interests are focused in key sectors of the Malaysian economy via its five Divisions: Plantation The Division has 44 oil palm estates and 10 oil mills in Malaysia and undertake the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boustead Hill
Boustead Hill is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It has two separate equestrian centres. In 1831 the township had a population of 63. It is located close to the site where the famous Solway Firth Spaceman photograph was taken. See also *Listed buildings in Burgh by Sands Burgh by Sands is a civil parish in the City of Carlisle in Cumbria, England. It contains 55 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, t ... References Hamlets in Cumbria Burgh by Sands {{Cumbria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boustead Cup
The Boustead Cup races are the February or March rowing races held over the Championship Course in London, England. It is held between certain men's eights from Thames Rowing Club and London Rowing Club and has been supplemented by two races (and cups) for women's crews. The Boustead was first held in 1947, with the cup given by the Boustead family. Thames Rowing Club won in 2019. In that year the linked cup races for women, the Casey and Rayner Cups, were inaugurated. The course is almost the same course of the famous the boat race The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. There are separate men's ... but starts in the east. External links Past results Rowing in the United Kingdom {{sports-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Boustead
Edward Boustead (1800–1888) was an English businessman and philanthropist, who founded Boustead & Co and played an active role in the development of Singapore as a business and trading centre. Boustead was born in Yorkshire, England. He was the great-grandfather of actor David Niven. Beginnings of Boustead & Co In 1828, Boustead arrived in Singapore on board the British ship ''Hindustan''. In the same year, he established a trading company, Boustead & Co. Boustead & Co specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery. Boustead commissioned Irish civil architect, George Drumgoole Coleman to design his company's headquarters alongside the Singapore River. The warehouse was known as "the house of seven and twenty pillars", located around the corner from High Street. In 1834, Boustead partnered with German-born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Boustead
Colonel Sir John Edmond Hugh Boustead Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, KBE Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, CMG Distinguished Service Order, DSO Military Cross, MC & Medal bar, Bar (14 April 1895 – 3 April 1980) was a British military officer, modern pentathlete, and diplomat who served in numerous posts across several Middle Eastern countries, including ambassador to Abu Dhabi from 1961 to 1965. The son of a tea planter from Sri Lanka, Boustead began his career with the Royal Navy, but soon joined the British Army to fight in the trenches during World War I, where he earned his first of two Military Crosses. Following an appearance at the 1920 Summer Olympics, Boustead spent several years as a mountaineer and explorer prior to being appointed commander of the Sudan Camel Corps, with whom he served through World War II. He then embarked on a diplomatic career until his 1965 retirement and published an autobiography, ''The Wind of Morning' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |