Kearley and Tonge
From Graces Guide
Tea and Produce Merchants, of Mitre Square, London, E.C.
1876 Company founded by Hudson Ewbanke Kearley and and Gilbert Augustus Tonge with the objective of selling tea direct to consumers rather than through wholesalers.
1878 Began retailing its own products at a shop in Brentford
1880 Began supplying other provisions to retailers
1887 The company became known as Kearley and Tonge
By 1890 had 200 branches known as International Stores.
1895 Incorporated as a Limited Company.
1895 International Tea Company's Stores was formed for acquiring and extending the wholesale tea, provision and food produce importers of Messrs Kearley and Tonge including their 200 stores in various parts of the country[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, May 20, 1895
- Biography of Hubert Kearley, ODNB