Williams & Kettle

Williams & Kettle Limited
158523
Company typePublic listed company
IndustryStock & Station Agency, General Merchants
Founded21 May 1891 (1891-05-21) in Napier, New Zealand
FoundersF W Williams and N Kettle
Defunct1 June 2005 (2005-06-01)
Fatebought by Wrightson in 2005
SuccessorPGG Wrightson
Headquarters
Wilket House, Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand
Area served
North Island East Coast — Poverty Bay and more

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.