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A History of Swire

Hardcover • 2020 • 1. edition

A History of Swire

By Robert Bickers

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About the book

The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on the textile trade. John Swire's sons, John Samuel (1825-1898) and William Hudson (1830-1884), took the firm overseas and it was John Samuel Swire in particular whose entrepreneurial instincts would be at the root of the firm's successes in years to come. In 1861, John Swire & Sons Limited began to trade with China. In 1866, in partnership with R.S. Butterfield, the fi...Show more

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9781472949943

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2020

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1

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A History of Swire

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Hardcover

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