Saxone Shoe Co
Manufacturer and retailer of shoes; factories at Kilmarnock; shops at 40 Strand, 11 Cheapside, 64 Gracechurch Street, London, Croydon and throughout the country (1946).
1908 Clark and Sons merged with F. and G. Abbott to form the Saxone Shoe Co. George Clark and George Sutherland Abbott became joint-managing directors.
1928 There were 106 retail stores
1928 Public Company. Directors are George Clark (Chairman and MD); George Sutherland Abbott, Managing Director; George Rowe (Managing Director); Thomas Davies Lewis (of C. and E. Lewis); William Finlayson Smith (factory manager); Ernest Hearn Davis (Manager, Buying Dept); Malcolm Henderson (Manager, Accountancy Dept).[1]
1956 Merger agreed with Lilley and Skinner to form the Saxone, Lilley and Skinner Group
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- ↑ George Rowe