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Notable Retailers
The object of this project is to catalogue notable retailers or business magnates, founders of big chain stores etc., linking them to profiles and trees on GENi. These giants mostly started out as ordinary shopkeepers.
The project is international.
See also Shopkeepers where you can add profiles of those who were the backbone of society - ordinary shopkeepers.
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Note: Links in bold are to GENi profiles. Where no there is not a profile on GENi (yet) links are to outside resources.
People of great influence, importance, or standing in particular fields of business. "The term characteristically refers to a wealthy individual who controls through personal business ownership or dominant shareholding position a firm or industry whose goods, products, or services are widely consumed". Business Magnate
Agricultural
Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894) Hawaiin Businessman and politician. Co-founder of the firm Castle & Cooke which sold farm tools, sewing equipment, and medicine, and invested in Hawaii's sugar industry with plantations in Kohala & Haiku.
- Charles M. Barnes who opened a book-printing business in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873 and his son
- William Barnes, went into partnership with
- Gilbert Clifford Noble (1860-1936) in 1917
Booksellers
- Benjamin Ingram
- Sandell Perkins
Clothiers
Confectioners
Distilleries and Families - Scotland
<* Richard Block
- David Quayle (1936-2010)
- Focus UK
- Bill Archer
- Greg Stanley (who had previously built up and sold the DIY chain Fads)
Fashion Icons - Designers
Jewellers
- John Doulton (1793-1873)
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