Volume 4

Practical grocer : a manual and guide for the grocer, the provision merchant and allied trades / by W.H. Simmonds ; with contributions by specialists, trade experts and members of the trades ; illustrated by a series of separately-printed plates.

  • Simmonds, W. H.
Date:
1909
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    Alderman Amos Hinton is a prosperous Middlesbrough grocer, who has become widely known as one of the leading lights of the central organization of the retail grocers’ associations—the Federation. In connection with this society he holds one of the most lesponsible positions, that of chairman of the General Purposes Committee, the “Trade Parliament” as it has been called. This body, which is composed of representatives from all parts of the kingdom, meets quarterly in important centres, and is the most powerful of all the trade organizations. Mr. Hinton has been several times re-elected to the chairmanship of the committee, in which capacity, as well as in his evidence before government committees on behalf of the Federation, he has earned golden opinions. He has taken an active part in the local affairs of Middlesbrough, and is a justice of the peace. Mr. Samuel Shirley, Bristol, has taken an active interest in affairs pertaining to the grocery trade. He has been president of the Bristol and District Grocers’ and Provision Dealers’ Benevolent Society from its inception in 1897, and for a period was chairman of the Bristol Grocers’ Association. He has also held the position oi chairman of the Parliamentary and General Purposes Com- mittees of the Grocers’ Federation, and in 1900 was president of the Federation. Mr. Arthur J. Giles is the able and popular secretary of the Grocers’ Federation, having held that position for the past thirteen years. Few men are better known in the trade in Great Britain. Mr. Giles is also secretary of the National Federation of Off- license Associations, and of other important trade societies, not the least important of them being the benevolent fund connected with the Federation of Grocers’ Associations, a fund he was chiefly instrumental in founding. Mr. A. G. Grantham, trading as Grantham & Co., was born at Leatherhead, Surrey, in 1852, and went to London when eighteen years of age. He took over the business now known as “Ye Old Black Friars Tea Shoppe”, Blackfriars Road, London, in 1880. It was originally established in 1789, and the building is now mainly used as a wholesale and distributing depot to supply Grantham & Co.’s various branch shops in London. Mr. Grantham has filled various local offices, such as member of the old District Council, churchwarden, &c. He was a member for upwards of ten years of the council of the Metropolitan Grocers’ Association, and was recently mainly instrumental in forming the London Retailers’ Sugar Association, of which he is chairman, and which at the beginning of 1905 had a membership owning 4000 shops.