Aspinwall And Company, Willingdon Island

Aspinwall and Company Limited is one of the earliest commercial enterprises in the Malabar Coast, established in the year 1867, by the legendary English trader and visionary, John H. Aspinwall. In 1956, the Royal Family of Travancore acquired some shares in Aspinwall, when the company became a public limited company. In the early 1970's, when the English owners decided to disinvest, major portion of the company's shareholding was taken over by the Royal Family, and they hold the controlling interests till date. Today, Aspinwall and Company Limited has diversified business interests in the areas of Shipping & Logistics, Coffee Trading and Exports, Coir, Rubber Plantations and Tourism. The great visionary is long gone. But J.H. Aspinwall's dynamic spirit is very much kept alive in the priceless legacy he has left behind: Aspinwall and Company Limited. The seed of enterprise that he planted way back in 1867 has now become a giant spreading tree - a corporate phenomenon - rapidly growing vertically and laterally.