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The company was founded in June 1899 by William Morrison, who started the business as an egg and butter merchant in Rawson Market, Bradford, England, operating under the name of Wm Morrison Limited. [9] His son Ken Morrison took over the company in 1952, aged 21. In 1958, Morrisons opened a small shop in the city centre. [9]
William Murdoch Morrison (19 July 1878 – 3 August 1956) was the English founder of the business which would, after his death, become the Morrisons supermarket chain.
1996 – Morrison Restaurants Inc. officially split into three separate companies: Ruby Tuesday Inc., Morrison Fresh Cooking Inc., and Morrison Health Care Inc. [2] 1998 – Morrison Senior Living founded as a division of Morrison. It consists of the acquisitions of Drake Management and Culinary Services Network.
Morrisons later recovered its financial performance and in September 2006, it announced a £134.2m half-year pre-tax profit for the 25 weeks to 23 July 2006. This was a company record, and convinced City commentators that Morrisons had recovered. Morrison was the longest serving chairman of a top 100 public company in the UK. [citation needed]
Morrison's Cafeterias was a chain of cafeteria-style restaurants, located in the Southeastern United States with a concentration of locations in Georgia and Florida. Generally found in shopping malls , Morrison's primary competition was Piccadilly Cafeterias .
Supermarket Morrisons is to scrap “use by” dates on most of its milk in a bid to reduce food waste. From the end of January, the retailer will instead place “best before” dates on 90% of ...
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Alexander Francis Morrison. In 1883, Alexander Francis Morrison (1856–1921), an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, and Hastings College of the Law, founded the firm's oldest ancestor in San Francisco under the name O’Brien & Morrison. [3] His aim was to practice "principally in the line of corporation business." [4]