'Soapy Joe's. The history of Joseph Watson & Sons Ltd, 1893-1993' in J A Chartres & K Honeyman (eds), Leeds City Business, 1893-1993. Essays marking the centenary of incorporation

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Author(s) Honeyman, Katrina
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1993
Pages pp217-43
Publisher Leeds University Press
Place Published Leeds

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Provides a history of the firm including after its acquisition by Lever Brothers Ltd and the latter's merger to create Unilever Ltd, when it remained a semi-autonomous unit through to the 1980s. Focuses especially on its existence within Levers and Unilevers as a case study of a quasi-independent unit within a major multinational business