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Carr's is the name of foodstuff and agricultural brands historically derived from founder Jonathan Dodgson Carr, but now owned and marketed by more than one separate company. ==History== In 1831, Carr formed a small bakery and biscuit factory in the English city of Carlisle; he received a royal warrant in 1841.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Story of Carr’s )〕 Within fifteen years of being founded, it was the largest baking business in Britain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company History )〕 His business was both a mill and a bakery, an early example of vertical integration, and he produced bread by night and biscuits by day. The biscuits were loosely based on dry biscuits used on long voyages by sailors.〔 They could be kept crisp and fresh in tins, and despite their fragility could easily be transported to other parts of the country by canal and railway.〔 Jonathan Carr protested against the Corn Laws, which imposed steep tariffs on imported wheat, keeping the price of British wheat artificially high. This meant that bread was expensive, even in times of famine. Carr died in 1884, but by 1885, the company made 128 varieties of biscuit and employed 1000 workers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carr and Co )〕 In 1894 the company was registered as Carr and Co. Ltd., but reverted to a private company in 1908, and Carrs Flour Mills Limited was incorporated after acquiring the flour milling assets.〔〔 His four sons were less skilled at managing the business, but it remained in the family until 1931 when it came under the ownership of McVities, part of the United Biscuits group.〔 Among the members of the Carr family who worked for the business was former Commando Capt Richard Carr MBE, who was decorated for repeated escape attempts from Italian and German PW camps during the Second World War. 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「Carr's」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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