1913 Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS)

Note: This is a sub-section of Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS)

Overview of activities.

Report mentions the following production facilities -

It owns biscuit and sweet works at Crumpsall near Manchester,
boot and shoe works at Leicester, Heckmondwike. Rushden and Leeds,
soap, candle, glycerine, lard and starch works at Irlam near Manchester, Silvertown (London) and Dunston-on-Tyne.
tallow and oil works, Sydney, Australia,
woollen cloth works, Batley,
clothing factories, Holbeck (Leeds). Broughton (Manchester), and Pelaw-on-Tyne,
cocoa and chocolate works, Dallow Road, Luton,
flour mills, Dunston-on-Tyne, Silvertown (London), Oldham, Manchester and Avonmouth (Bristol),
furniture factories, Broughton (Manchester) and Pelaw on-Tyne,
printing, bookbinding, boxmaking and lithographic works, Longsight (Manchester), Pelaw-on-Tyne and Leicester
preserve, candied peel and pickle works and vinegar brewery, Middleton Junction (near Manchester)
shirts, mantles and underclothing, Broughton (Manchester),
millinery (Manchester),
cabinet, paper, tailoring, shirts, kerseys. drugs, etc., Pelaw-on-Tyne,
tailoring and bedding, London
bacon factories, Tralee (Ireland) and Horning (Denmark),
lard refineries, West Hartlepool and Irlam,
tobacco, cigar, cigarette and snuff factory, Manchester,
flannel factory, Littleboro,
corset factory, Desborough,
hosiery factory, Huthwaite (Notts)
tea gardens, Ceylon,
weaving sheds, Bury and Radcliffe,
brush and mat works, Leeds,
fruit farms, Roden (Shropshire), Marden (Hereford),
general hardware, bedstead, wire mattress and tinplate works Dudley, Birtley and Keighley,
butter factory, Bislington (Bristol) and
paint, varnish and colour works, Rochdale.

The society are also owners of the steamships "Fraternity," "New Pioneer," "Dinah," and "Briton," and have seventeen agencies under their banking department covering all the principal towns and cities in the kingdom.

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