Harry St. George Butterfield Founder of Firm 1923 President 1923-1965		Dudley Butterfield CMG Vice President 1946-1965 President 1965-1983

Butterfield & Company has been a Bermudian fixture for over 80 years. The business was started by Harry St. George Butterfield when the Company signed its first agency agreement with a biscuit manufacturer in the United Kingdom, for the promotion and sale of their products throughout Bermuda. By 1923, other agency agreements had been signed and Butterfield & Co. Ltd. was established. Thus began what has become the largest food wholesale distribution company in Bermuda.

In the early days, Butterfield & Co. Ltd. was located at 73 Front Street in a building now occupied by a retail store and other businesses. In 1952, the company moved into a small warehouse and office complex on East Broadway, strategically placed at the entrance to the city of Hamilton and close to the docks.

In 1982, a fire destroyed the main warehouse building and the sales and administrative offices. In 1984, Butterfield & Co. Ltd. relocated to a larger site in Devonshire, which allowed for further growth. The custom designed warehouse on the three-acre site has been expanded several times over the past 20 years.

In 1993, Butterfield & Co. Ltd. merged with J.S. Vallis & Co. Ltd. and began trading under the name Butterfield & Vallis. The combined operation was too large to conduct out of one facility and was then separated into two divisions: Foodservice which operates from the former J.S. Vallis property on Woodlands Road in Pembroke and Consumer Products which occupies the Orange Valley, Devonshire site.

Spencer Butterfield Assistant Vice President		James Butterfield President		Geoge Butterfield Chairman

In 1998, the Company bought the operating business of another large competitor, Winter-Cookson, Petty Ltd. The Company now has a total staff of over 200, more than a third of who have been with the Company for over ten years.

Although in recent years, Butterfield & Vallis has expanded into industrial cleaning products and equipment, and hotel supplies, the Company continues to focus on its core business as originally established by Harry St. George Butterfield, and continued by his son, and grandsons, of wholesale food distribution and manufacturers’ agents.