Arnhold Trading Company
“A strange time to embark on a new venture, but the Arnhold brothers had a habit of testing the limits. At the end of 1935, they founded a new company called Arnhold Trading & Company Ltd. In fact the business it was to conduct was anything but new. This was a return to historical strengths in the logistics of exporting China’s produce to the wider world. Arnhold Trading was registered in Shanghai on 9 March 1936 (as usual under Hongkong Ordinances), ‘To acquire and take over as a going concern the export business of Arnhold & Company…agencies, trademarks, goodwill…’ (1)
Sources:
- Arnholds: China Trader, Vaudine England, Pub Arnhold & Co, 2017.