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Industry | water transport ![]() |
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Founded | Liverpool, United Kingdom, 1863 |
Founder | Alfred Booth; Charles Booth |
Defunct | 1986 |
Fate | divided and sold |
Headquarters | Liverpool , United Kingdom |
Area served | UK, USA, South America |
Key people | Alfred Allen Booth |
Services | leather, merchant shipping, tourism, civil engineering |
Alfred Booth and Company was a British trading and shipping company, founded in 1866 and traded for more than a century. It was founded in Liverpool, England, by two brothers, Alfred and Charles Booth to export English light leather to the US.[1] It grew into a significant merchant shipping company with its head office in Liverpool and interests in the United States and South America. The group was broken up in 1964 and the last Booth company from the group was sold in 1986.