Booker Story
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- Author(s) Slinn, Judy, & Jennifer Tanburn
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003
- Pages 235pp; illus
- Publisher Jarrold Publishing
- Place Published Andover
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- Name Private collection
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Scholarly account. Commissioned. Focuses on the years 1945 to early 1990s. Structured in three parts. Part 1] 'Merchants and planters': 'The founders, 1815-30'; 'Building Booker businesses - the 1830s to the 1860s'; 'The second generation - the 1860s to 1886'; 'Booker Bros, McConnell & Co - the 1890s to 1920'; 'Depression and dereliction - the years from 1920 to 1945'; Part 2] 'Sugar, shopkeeping and shipping - Booker's diverse businesses after 1945': 'Reconstruction and reorganisation'; 'Sugar from 1945 to 1967'; 'Ships, rum and other activities'; 'Shopkeeping across the world'; 'Leaving Guyana'; Part 3] 'All change and growth': 'Shopkeeping and food wholesaling'; 'The rise and demise of engineering, 1956-1993'; 'Exiting from alcohol, shipping and overseas trading'; 'Health foods and pharmacies, 1970-1992'; 'International agribusiness'; 'Skipper at the helm - food distribution, 1982-1993'; 'All change - dramas and the end'. A statistical appendix covers 1950s to 1990s