| LC control no. | n 85119032 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Guinness (Firm) |
| Variant(s) | Arthur Guinness Son & Company Guinness (Arthur) Son and Company, ltd. Guinness Son & Company Guinness PLC Guinness Limited Guinness and Co. |
| See also | Founder: Guinness, Arthur, 1725-1803 |
| Beginning date | 1759 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England Ireland |
| Associated place | Dublin (Ireland) |
| Located | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Brewing Beer industry Beer Porter Stout |
| Affiliation | Diageo (Firm) |
| Found in | Light fantastic 2, 1978: t.p. (Guinness) p. 63 (Arthur Guinness Son & Company (Park Royal) Ltd.) LC data base, 4/2/85 (hdg.: Guinness (Arthur) Son and Company, ltd.) Its Annual report 1961: title page (Arthur Guinness Son & Co. Ltd.) page 1 (Park Royal Brewery, London N.W.10) page 2 (parent company of brewing companies: Arthur Guinness Son & Company (Dublin) Limited [at St. James's Brewery]; and, Arthur Guinness Son and Company (Park Royal) Limited) Its Annual report and accounts 1981: title page (Guinness) page 1 (Arthur Guinness Son and Company Limited) ; 1983: t.p. (Arthur Guinness) p.1 (Arthur Guinness and Sons PLC) Its Report and accounts 1985: t.p. (Guinness PLC) Wikipedia, viewed 26 April 2018 (Guinness; Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) at St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin, Ireland; the company was started in 1759; started selling a dark beer porter in 1778; from its rebuilding in 1797-99 the brewery had stopped brewing ale and concentrated on porter; the first Guinness beers to use the term "stout" appeared in the 1840s; on Arthur's death, his son, also Arthur (1768-1855), and his brothers Benjamin (d.1826) and William Lunnell (d.1842) created a partnership trading as "A. B. & W.L. Guinness & Co, brewers and flour millers"; business continued by Arthur and his son Benjamin Lee (1798-1868, 1st Baronet), then by Benjamin's eldest son, Arthur; in October 1886 Guinness became a public company [Arthur Guinness Son and Co]; its headquarters moved from Dublin to London at the beginning of the Anglo-Irish Trade War in 1932) Grace's Guide to Industrial History website, viewed 26 April 2018 (Guinness and Co. [as in its advertisement, 1847]; Arthur Guinness, Son and Co., brewers, of Dublin, Ireland; in 1997, merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo; in 2005 the Guinness brewery in Park Royal, London closed and production of all Guinness sold in the UK and Ireland was switched to St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin; Guinness is a dry stout, based on the porter style that originated in London in the early 18th century) Companies House Beta website, viewed 26 April 2018: under Company number 00023307 (incorporated on 21 October 1886 as Arthur Guinness Son and Company Limited, registered office at No 8 Bishopsgate, London E.C; re-registered as Arthur Guinness and Sons PLC on 1 March 1982, then Guinness PLC on 1 May 1985; name changed to Diageo PLC on 16 December 1997; Guinness Limited registered under Company number 00510607 on 16 December 1997) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | nr 97007290 |
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