Bowater. A history
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- Author(s) Reader, William J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 426pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Library
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Commissioned scholarly history. Includes much about the industries in which the firm operated - paper / newsprint production [and through this newspaper publishing] and paper packaging production. Also much coverage of its mills at Sittingbourne; Ellesmere Port [Mersey Mills]; Northfleet; Corner Brook, Newfoundland; Calhoun, Tennessee. Some limited coverage of Ralli Brother and Bowater Steamship Co Ltd. Chapters include: 'The publishing revolution and the family firm, 1880-1914'; 'The expanding market and the urge to manufacture, 1914-23'; 'Merchants into manufacturers, 1923-27'; Eric and the barons, 1927-32'; 'The Bowater Group in the thirties'; 'The fall of the House of Lloyd, 1918-36'; 'The raw materials crisis, 1937-38'; 'The road to Corner Brook, 1937-39'; 'War and paper control, 1939-45'; 'The wider outlook, 1938-47'; 'The Tennessee venture, 1944-54'; 'Zenith, 1954-56'; 'Expansion into adversity, 1957-60'; 'The cash crisis, 1961-62'; 'Bowaters in outline, 1962-80'. Extensive financial analysis