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| Industry | Gas |
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| Founded | 1824 |
| Defunct | 1987 |
| Fate | Broke up into Calor Gas and Contibel |
| Successor | Calor Group Tractebel |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Parent | Charterland and General Exploration and Finance  |
Imperial Continental Gas Association plc was a leading British gas utility operating in various cities in Continental Europe. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
The Company was formed by Sir Moses Montefiore [1] and some of his colleagues based in London in 1824 as the Imperial Continental Gas Association to establish gas utilities in other counties. [2] It commenced operations distributing gas in Hannover in 1825 and providing gas lighting in Berlin in 1826 under the supervision of the Prussian Count Eduard of Dyhrn-Waldenburg-Schoenau. [3] During the course of the 19th century it established gas works in Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna. [4] Its operations in Vienna began in the mid-1840s; the head office from 1883 to 1902 was at the Palais Epstein. [5]
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet was general manager from 1824. [6] The noted philanthropist Goodwin Newton of Barrells Hall, and Glencripesdale Estate was Director and Chairman for a long period in the late nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century Sir Henry Birchenough the future president of the British South Africa Company also served as a director of the company. [7]
It established the Westergasfabriek gas works in Amsterdam in 1883. [8]
In 1928 it established Distrigas, the main gas distributor in Belgium, which is now owned by Eni. [9] During World War I its operations in Berlin were nationalised by the German Government. [10]
In 1969 the Company acquired all the shares in Calor Group that it did not already own. [11]
In 1986 it rejected a bid from Gulf Resources & Chemical Corporation, a company controlled by the Barclay brothers. [12] Instead in 1987 it broke itself up into Calor Group (now owned by SHV) and Contibel (now owned by Tractebel). [13]
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