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Manny Cussins (26 October 1905 – 5 October 1987) was a British businessman, who made his fortune in the furniture retail business, John Peters, and became chairman of Waring & Gillow. He joined the board of directors at Leeds United F.C. in 1961, and served as the club's chairman between 1972 and 1983. [1] He died on 5 October 1987, aged 81.
The business was bought by retail conglomerate Great Universal Stores in 1953, [27] however a large share of the business was sold to rival furniture chain "John Peters", run by Manny Cussins for cash and shares in 1960, [28] with John Peters company renamed Waring and Gillow (Holdings) Ltd. [29] After the war the business of the firm began to ...
In 1954 UDS acquired Alexandre Limited, a Leeds-based multiple tailor with over 88 stores owned by Bernard [23] and Jack Lyons and their families. [24] [25] Joseph Collier, the United Drapery Stores chairman, was struggling to turn around Prices Tailors and saw the Lyons as the men to turn it around. [26]
They continued to buy furniture stores, with Oetzmann & Co. purchased in 1954, [48] Godfrey and James Broderick stores added. [49] The biggest name purchased was Waring & Gillows in 1953, however a large share of the business was sold to rival furniture chain "John Peters", run by Manny Cussins for cash and shares in 1960. [50]
John A. Peters (1864–1953), U.S. Representative from Maine (1913–1922) and U.S. District Court judge (1922–1947) John E. Peters (1839–1919), businessman and politician in Newfoundland John M. Peters (1927–2013), American lawyer and legislator
Sir Charles Lupton – Lord Mayor of Leeds 1915, co-founder of a law firm that became Dibb Lupton Alsop, (shortened to DLA), precursor to global law firm DLA Piper, with a prime office in Leeds [104] Lupton family – prominent land-owning family of woollen cloth merchants and manufacturers in Georgian and Victorian Leeds through to the mid ...
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