McDonalds Ltd

Sectors:

  • Distribution - retailing Department store retailing
  • Wearing apparel & footwear production Outerwear & underwear production
  • Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Wearing apparel, footwear, haberdashery, mercery, etc, distribution

Notes:

Traced origins to 1826 when established as Stewart & McDonald, wholesale drapers. Expanded rapidly and in 1860s started a retail business. From 1860s established clothing factories at, inter alia, Glasgow and Leeds. Opened branches in other UK cities, Australasia, Canada and South Africa. In 1900, when a very large business, incorporated as Stewart & McDonald Ltd. In 1913 the retailing business hived off from the larger wholesaling business, into McDonalds Ltd. 1922 established a branch at Harrogate. 1951 acquired by House of Fraser Ltd [2023]

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