Minute Book: Board of Directors; AGMs

This volume contains minutes of meetings of the board of directors, as well as minutes of annual meetings of shareholders.

There is an index at the front of the volume.

Most of the copies of minutes have been signed by the Secretary, but some have not.

Meetings were held on a more regular basis than at the beginning of the company's existence. Meetings of the board of directors were held every three or four months. Though meetings of shareholders were nominally annual, they could be adjourned until later dates so that, in effect, they could be held two or three times a year. This could be to transact extraordinary business that would in the UK require an EGM, or it could be because there was not a quorum of shareholders present at the original AGM.

In the early part of the volume, little general company business is minuted at meetings, with minutes instead recording decisions made for regulatory purposes, to alter the structure or functions of the company, and so on. However, towards the end of the volume, more detail about the activities of the company appears in the minutes.

On p. 74 the move of the company into the dog food production business is discussed.

A discussion about the company's poor position as a result of the outbreak of war, and consequent measures to deal with this, appears on p. 116.

Problems with the 'Pulvex' flea treatment are discussed on p. 190.

20 May 1936 - 16 Aug 1944

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