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Cadena Cafes Limited was a chain of coffee shops in South West England. It was established in 1895 under the name Lloyd's Oriental Cafe, subsequently Lloyd's Cadena Cafes Ltd.〔 It became Cadena Cafes Ltd in 1907〔〔It was prominently reported in the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette (7th November 1907) that Philip James Lloyd, tea merchant and dealer, former managing director of Lloyds Cadena Cafes Ltd for about 12 years, had gone bankrupt.〕 and went on to operate over twenty branches. It was eventually taken over by Tesco in January 1965 and the cafes closed during the 1970s. It was listed on the Bristol Stock Exchange; from 1927 to at least 1950, its AGMs were fully reported by the Western Daily Press.〔 1927-1950〕 ==Expansion== In 1902, Lloyds Oriental Cafe had branches in Bristol, Oxford, Hastings, Southsea, Tunbridge Wells and Richmond which served a coffee blend they called "Cadena". In 1919, the company – by then itself known as Cadena – purchased the Cheltenham cafes Cosy Corner and the Oriental Cafe from Ernest Edward Marfell who became a director of the Cadena company. They considerably expanded Cosy Corner. In 1924, Cadena expanded their Wine Street, Bristol branch to include a "grill room" for gentlemen only. The growth of the company from 1927 can be tracked through the Western Daily Press AGM reports〔 though sometimes similar announcements are made two years running. At their 34th AGM in 1927 they began a long tradition of holding their AGM at the then-new Berkeley Cafe in Bristol (which is now a Wetherspoons).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Berkeley, Bristol )〕 They replaced their Bournemouth branch with a new one in Christchurch Road and bought a new site in Broad Street, Reading. In 1928 they opened in Oxford, started building in Salisbury and opened a new bakery in Bristol. Reading and Salisbury opened in 1929. Apart from the major acquisition of the Dellers company in 1933, the 1930s saw less expansion with the purchase a Winchester site in 1930 which eventually opened in 1934. In 1932 and 1934 the company sold more shares. The prospectuses give details of company activities and contractual commitments at the time. They therefore provide details of the cafes as they were in the early 1930s. After this, development of a Worcester cafe was started in 1936 and opened in 1937 but 1939 saw the closure of the Leamington bakery and the Pantiles cafe in Tunbridge Wells. The 1940s saw a return to financial health despite wartime taxation. In 1942 they bought land at Brislington for a new bakery planned to be built after the war, and when that eventually opened in 1949 (albeit across the road in an existing building, not new build), they opened a new cafe at the former bakery site it replaced and launched a new "Cadenita" brand upstairs in the Ritz Cinema, Bristol. (The cinema opened in 1938 but closed thirty years later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ritz Cinema Bristol Hill, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 )〕) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cadena Cafes Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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