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{{Infobox Company |
{{Infobox company |
company_name = Moran & Cato|
name = Moran & Cato|
company_type = Grocery Chain|
type = Grocery Chain|
foundation = 1881|
foundation = 1881|
location = [[Australia]] |
location = [[Australia]] |

Revision as of 18:25, 14 February 2015

Moran & Cato
Company typeGrocery Chain
IndustrieEinzelhandel
Gegründet1881
HauptsitzAustralien
Produktegroceries

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

  1. ^ "Bluestone Cottages and Former Moran & Cato Store". Victorian Heritage Register. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
  2. ^ a b c d "Cato, Frederick John (1858 - 1935)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
  3. ^ "Moran and Cato Australia Limited". deListed. Retrieved 13 January 2014.