Wee Bin & Co.

Wee Bin & Co. chop Hong Guan, was a firm of merchants and shipowners in Singapore that was prominent in the 1860s. The firm was founded by Wee Bin in 1856, and was located at Market Street. At first, it did business with various houses in Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and eventually became an importer of products from that port. The firm also traded in earthenware, and had a fleet of over twenty vessels for the Chinese and Dutch East Indies trade. They were also traders, sago manufacturers and merchant bankers, and had several branches in the Dutch Indies. The firm was later managed by Lim Ho Puah, and Lim Peng Siang, respectively Wee Bin's son-in-law and grandson, the latter of whom acquired the major part of the firm's business interests including its larger steamships when the firm was liquidated in 1911.