Tooth and Company

The company's history

In 1835 John Tooth, who had arrived in New South Wales in 1928, and Charles Newnham opened the Kent Brewery in Sydney. In June 1888 Tooth & Company became a publicly listed company with capital of 900,000 pounds. In 1905 the Company acquired the New South Wales Malting Company's works at Mittagong. Over the next two decades the company acquired the Maitland Brewery, the Castlemaine Brewery and Wood Brothers, Newcastle; breweries in Wagga Wagga, Narrandera and Gouburn and in 1929 they acquired Resch's Limited. In 1977 the company acquired Wright, Heaton and Company and Penfolds Wines Limited and in 1978 Courage Brewery Limited. Tooth and Company was acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983. The company's extensive collection of hotel properties were sold off from 1990. The company was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in 2010 after not having traded for many years. See the Tooth and Company Chronology for a summary of significant events in the company's life.

Tooth and Company records

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre holds more than 950 shelf metres of Tooth and Company records. This is a full range of company records including share registers, board minutes, records of NSW hotels & mineral water production, securities books, property office & managers files, managerial, financial & operational records of brewing, industrial & wages records, staff records, executive officers files, pictorial & historical material, a book collection, records of early brewing companies & companies acquired up to approximately 1970. These records cover the time period from 1841 to 1985. You can see a master list of Tooth and Company hotels and the types of records we hold for each one here.

Yellow cards

Photographs

Managers files

Property files

Item lists

Posters and advertising

Staff records

General administrative records

You can see lists of indvidual items in the Tooth and Company records here.