Melias
of Liverpool
Retail and wholesale provision merchants, butchers, greengrocers, bakers and confectioners, licensed victuallers, caterers and manufacturers of canned foods (1949)
1909 Melias Ltd was founded by Hugh Mason and incorporated as a private company[1]
1932 "MELIAS MEANS GOOD, SOUND NOURISHING THINGS TO EAT AT FAIR PRICES ..."[2]
1935 Became a public company
1948 Melias Ltd acquired T. Pritchard Ltd. Melias owned the largest privately-owned chain of retail provision shops. Most of its shares were acquired by Electric and General Industrial Trusts Ltd.[3]
1949 Name changed to Melias and Pritchard Ltd; Electric and General Industrial Trusts Ltd offered shares to the public.[4]
1954 The Pritchard shops were sold and the group was renamed Melias Ltd[5]
1959 Acquired John Bull Stores (Jaybee)[6] of Cardiff, bringing the total number of stores to over 600. [7]
1960 Acquired O. P. Nice Group based in Bury St Edmunds[8]
1961 52nd AGM. Multiple grocers. Had established Merlin Supermarkets as the entry into this type of retailing.[9]
1963 Had sold 4 supermarkets[10] to Mac Fisheries. The supermarket venture had been a disaster for the company.[11]
1966 Was continuing to make losses; Fine Fare Holdings and Associated British Foods, both controlled by Garfield Weston and his family, purchased a controlling interest in Melias Ltd but did not intend to make an offer for rest at that time.[12]
1970 was a subsidiary of Associated British Foods.[13]
1972 The remainder of the shares were acquired by ABF[14]
1985 Melia Supermarkets Ltd was wound up voluntarily[15]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times Jan. 24, 1949
- ↑ Liverpool Echo 01 September 1932
- ↑ The Times Dec. 22, 1948
- ↑ The Times Jan. 29, 1949
- ↑ The Times Oct. 7, 1954
- ↑ The Times Sept. 15, 1959
- ↑ The Times Oct. 20, 1959
- ↑ The Times Nov. 17, 1960
- ↑ The Times Nov. 22, 1961
- ↑ The Times Nov. 22, 1963
- ↑ The Times Sept. 30, 1964
- ↑ The Times Dec. 13, 1966
- ↑ The Times Dec. 23, 1970
- ↑ The Times Apr. 11, 1972
- ↑ London Gazette 22 February 1985