Bleachers' Association Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
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Business services
Laundry, dry cleaning, etc, services
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Textile production
Textile finishing
Notes:
Established 1900 through merger of c60 cotton textile bleaching/finishing businesses mostly located in Lancashire to become one of largest UK businesses. Thereafter continued to acquire very many other textile finishing businesses and instituted rationalisation programmes. 1930s began diversification, eg into laundry and dry cleaning services
Publications:
- Concerning the Bleaching Industry by Sykes, Alan John
- Statistical Survey of the Twenty Five Years, 1900/1 to 1925/5 by Unknown
- 'Strategy and structure of cotton and steel enterprise in Britain, 1900-1939' in K Nakagawa (ed), Proceedings of the Fuji Conference, 1, 1974. Strategy and structure of big business by Yonekawa, Shin-ichi
- Survival strategies in Lancashire textiles. Bleachers' Association Ltd to Whitecroft Plc, 1900-1980s by Jeremy, David J
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
- Business services Laundry, dry cleaning, etc, services
- Textile production Textile finishing
Notes:
Established 1900 through merger of c60 cotton textile bleaching/finishing businesses mostly located in Lancashire to become one of largest UK businesses. Thereafter continued to acquire very many other textile finishing businesses and instituted rationalisation programmes. 1930s began diversification, eg into laundry and dry cleaning servicesPublications:
- Concerning the Bleaching Industry by Sykes, Alan John
- Statistical Survey of the Twenty Five Years, 1900/1 to 1925/5 by Unknown
- 'Strategy and structure of cotton and steel enterprise in Britain, 1900-1939' in K Nakagawa (ed), Proceedings of the Fuji Conference, 1, 1974. Strategy and structure of big business by Yonekawa, Shin-ichi
- Survival strategies in Lancashire textiles. Bleachers' Association Ltd to Whitecroft Plc, 1900-1980s by Jeremy, David J