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'''Moran & Cato''' was the largest chain of [[grocery storesstore]]s in [[Australia]] in the late ninenteenthnineteenth and early twentieth century.<ref name="Heritage Victoria">{{cite web|title=Bluestone Cottages and Former Moran & Cato Store|work=Victorian Heritage Register|url=http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/56318|accessdate=2010-02-21}}</ref> The partnership was established in [[Melbourne]] on 24 July 18811882 when [[Frederick John Cato]] joined his cousin Thomas EdwimEdwin Moran who ran two grocery stores in [[Fitzroy, Victoria|Fitzroy]] and [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]].<ref name=ADB>{{cite web|title=Cato, Frederick John (1858 - 1935)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070598b.htm|accessdate=2010-02-21}}</ref> Moran died in 1890 at the age of 3039 and was succeeded by his widow.<ref name=ADB/> The following years saw expansion into [[Tasmania]] and [[New South Wales]] and incororationincorporation of the company in 1912.<ref name=ADB/> By 1935 the company was employing nearly one thousand people and had about 120 branches in Victoria and Tasmania and 40 in New South Wales.<ref name=ADB/>