Shell out
Royal Dutch Shell announced that it is to move its HQ to London and become a fully British company. What’s its history?
— The company has its origins with a London antiques dealer, Marcus Samuel, who in 1833 diversified to import oriental shells as fashionable decorations. After his death in 1870, his sons Marcus Jr and Samuel diverted their interests to oil, building a fleet of tankers to import it from Dutch Borneo.
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