History of Unilever. A study in economic growth and social change
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- Author(s) Wilson, Charles H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1954
- Pages 2 vols; illus
- Publisher Cassell
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Pioneering, scholarly commissioned history from a senior academic, in detail up to 1929. Volume one is in four parts:1] 'An age of new customers, 1851-1906'; 2] 'The difficult years, 1906-14'; 3] 'Business in wartime, 1914-18'; 4] 'Crisis and reconstruction, 1919-29'. Appendices include table of capital employed, 1894-1929, growth of soap output, 1900-29 and list of directors. Volume two comprises five parts: 1] 'From butter to margarine, 1854-1906'; 2] 'The uneasy partnership, 1907-14'; 3] 'Between belligerents,1914-18'; 4] 'War and peace,1919-29'; 5] 'Unilever - the last twenty years. Also lengthy appendices - diagrams, graphs, tables of financial data. Also lists of directors. Much also about Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd; Joseph Crosfield & Sons Ltd; William Gossage & Sons Ltd; John Knight , Niger Co, Joseph Watson & Sons Ltd; Port Sunlight; Maypole Dairy Co Ltd; Margarine Union; margarine industry; butter industry; dairy industry; soap & detergent industry