Mid Wynd International Investment Trust

Mid Wynd International Investment Trust
Mid Wynd International Investment Trust
Type Public
Industry Investment management
Founded 1981
Headquarters Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Key people Michael MacPhee, Trust Manager
Parent Baillie Gifford & Co
Website www.midwynd.co.uk

The Mid Wynd International Investment Trust (LSEMWY) is a publicly traded investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange. The Trust is managed by Baillie Gifford & Co, the Edinburgh based investment management partnership.

History

The Company can trace its origins back to 1797. David Scott, a weaver from Hawkhill near Dundee, bought a property in Mid Wynd in order to establish a flax warping mill and hand weaving shed. For the next 150 years, the firm evolved, aided by colonialism, world-wide expansion and two world wars.[1]

In 1949, following unwelcome recommendations from a Government-sponsored Jute Working Party Report, the Company reorganised itself. The Mid Wynd Holding Co. Ltd. was established as group parent company of a number of subsidiaries, including James Scott & Sons Ltd., the producing company, and Dura (Investments) Co. Ltd. which was to hold the financial reserves.[2]

Following a merger in 1965 of James Scott & Sons Ltd., Thomas Boag & Co. Ltd. and Robertson Industrial Textiles Ltd., Mid Wynd was left with Dura (Investments) Co. Ltd. and various subsidiaries. Over the next fifteen years, the Company disposed of all its remaining assets with the exception of Dura (Investments), to which Baillie Gifford & Co. acted as managers and secretaries.[3]

Hampered by Capital Gains Tax and a restricted market for its shares, in 1981 the Company decided to seek a public quotation and to transform itself into an Investment Trust. Holdings held by Dura (Investments) were to be transferred to Mid Wynd. The investment policy of the new trust would be to invest principally in smaller and less well-known growth companies traded in overseas stockmarkets. To reflect this, the name of the Company would change to Mid Wynd International Investment Trust PLC.

On 25th September 1981, shareholders approved the changes at a General Meeting. In October of the same year, shares of the new Company were introduced to the London Stock Exchange.

In 1998, the Company amended its investment policy by removing its small cap bias. Today, Mid Wynd's objective is to achieve capital and income growth by investing on a worldwide basis.[4]

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