History

In 1880, at 23 years of age, Mr. Arthur Llewellyn G. Williams, who was born into a family of sugar and cotton merchants in Liverpool, sailed to Recife and with this, launches the history of Williams.

After arriving in Recife, the capital of Pernambuco State, he met his cousin and brother-in-law, Mr. John H. Boxwell, in Maceio (in Alagoas State). They then started J.H. BOXWELL & CO., which started trading sugar and cotton imports and exports, as well as acting as Shipping Agents.

Hereunder you may peruse the main chronological events of our Company’s course up to the present: