Retailing Revolution. A history of multiple retailing in the food trades based upon the Allied Suppliers Group
Details:
- Author(s) Mathias, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1967
- Pages 425pp; illus
- Publisher Longman Green & Co
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Acquisition, takeover, merger, etc, activity exc competition issues
- Name Marketing inc brand & product development, distribution, etc
- Name Vertical integration [currently subject to editing]
- Name Advertising
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Detailed and scholarly account of the development of the food retailing interests that came to be centralised as a nationwide entity in Allied Suppliers. These included Lipton Ltd, Home & Colonial Stores Ltd; Maypole Dairy Co Ltd, Meadow Dairy Co Ltd and Pearks Dairies Ltd. Deals in particular with their acquisition by the Dutch businesses of Van den Berghs Ltd and Jurgens Ltd which merged their interests into Margarine Union in 1927. Also covers areas such as tea production; dairy produce production; development of retail practices; acquisition and merger activity; marketing; vertical integration; etc. Much coverage also of Bilsland Bros Ltd, Glasgow; Broughs Ltd, Newcastle; Andrew Cochrane Ltd, Glasgow; W Duncan Ltd, Otto Monsted Ltd; South Shields; Galbraith's Stores Ltd, Paisley; A Massey & Sons Ltd, Glasgow [2023]