Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money in other merchandise. The Harvard Bookstore specializes in prints and paper-backs, Barnes and Noble's in review outlines; both stores cater to a large non-University clientele. In brief, savings afforded to students would be significant if the textbook middleman were eliminated, but none of the middlemen feel they would suffer...
...Arthur Brooke founded the company in 1869. (He added Bond to the firm's name to make it sound more upper class.) Arthur Brooke was one of the first British tea merchants to market a uniform blend of tea and to sell directly to retailers instead of to middlemen. Arthur's son Gerald, who began a 40-year reign as chairman of the company in 1912, made Brooke Bond's red delivery vans so much of a national institution that British toy stores sell miniature copies of them. Gerald also extended Brooke Bond's sources...
Bordeaux wine sellers, the middlemen between France's greatest vineyards and the world, acted last week as though they had just sipped sour Médoc. ";We are furious," snapped one. What they were furious about was the prospect of losing their profitable business with Chateau Latour, one of four venerable vineyards* that produce the only chateau-bottled Medoc wines rated as premier grand...
...deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...
Whisky& Willowy Women. Subject to approval by the Bank of England and the French Ministry of Finance-which so far have declined any public comment on the sale-the 166-year-old British firm plans to put approximately $3,000,000 into Chateau Latour precisely in order to bypass middlemen. Under the driving leadership of George E. McWatters, 40, a fourth-generation descendant of the first John Harvey, Harvey's since World War II has been buttoning up its sources of supply. The company has taken over two prime producers of Portuguese port, has a working agreement with...