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Revision as of 01:27, 9 April 2010
| Company type | Grocery Chain |
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| Industrie | Einzelhandel |
| Gegründet | 1881 |
| Hauptsitz | Australien |
| Produkte | groceries |
Moran & Cato was the largest chain of grocery stores in Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.[1] The partnership was established in Melbourne on 24 July 1881 when Frederick John Cato joined his cousin Thomas Edwin Moran who ran two grocery stores in Fitzroy and Carlton.[2] Moran died in 1890 at the age of 30 and was succeeded by his widow.[2] The following years saw expansion into Tasmania and New South Wales and incorporation of the company in 1912.[2] 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.[2]
The company was taken over by Permewan Wright Limited in 1969.[3]
References
- ^ "Bluestone Cottages and Former Moran & Cato Store". Victorian Heritage Register. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
- ^ a b c d "Cato, Frederick John (1858 - 1935)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
- ^ "Moran and Cato Australia Limited". deListed. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
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