World Commodities was incorporated as a private limited company in 1919.  It was described as a merchant, commission agent, shipowner, and promoter.  Capital was £10,000; its address was Prudential Buildings, Pinstone Street, Sheffield (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 24 June 1919).  The subscribers and directors were: W. E. Hazlehurst (shipping manager), Brooklands, Hope, Derbyshire; Richard S. Midgley, Vernon Lodge, Chatsworth Road, Totley Brook, near Sheffield; and E. Smith, 66 Woodstock Road, Sheffield (assistant shipping manager). 

Given its name, the company’s sales items were predictably varied.  For example, it advertised for  agents to sell water aerators and industrial lighting equipment to corporations and dairies (Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer, 18 June 1927, 13 April 1929).   By 1929, its office was at the corner of Holly and West Streets.  In 1930, World Commodities Ltd was bankrupt and it was wound up by its then director, Lancelot G. Winder, from an office at Blonk Street.  In 1933, the company was struck off the register.