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.

Reports on the business of the company are given at some meetings. Otherwise, minutes simply document the administrative decisions, regulatory resolutions and so on passed at meetings. An example of these might be resolutions to allow staff and directors to operate the company's bank account. Remuneration of directors is documented at some meetings.

A note of the registration of the "Cooper" trademark by a rival firm, Whittaker Laboratories of New York, appears on p. 19, along with a note of a decision to contest this.

A substantial increase in sales during 1946, put down to increased advertising, is noted on p. 48.

The launch of the "Cooper-Tox" product following successful testing is noted on pp. 97-98. Its' side effects on young calves are noted on p. 116. More notes on the fallout from the product appear on pp. 147-8.

The president of the company is authorised to take out a membership of the Lake Shore Athletic Club, Chicago, "in order to carry on the business of the company and to further its interests", on p. 149.

A note of a new aerosol shampoo product for use on animals appears on p. 180.

pp. 191-2 are blank.

6 Dec 1944 - 16 May 1951

1 item

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