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Cope Bros & Co was a company based in Liverpool that manufactured tobacco products from 1848 until 1952.〔Cope's and the Promotion of Tobacco in Victorian England, by A. V. Seaton, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic〕〔“Gallaher takes over Copes Tobacco”, The Times, Monday, Dec 01, 1952〕 ==History== The company was started in 1848 in Old Post Office Street Liverpool by Thomas Cope and George Cope〔〔“The Late MR Thomas Cope JP” -Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Friday, September 19, 1884; Issue 11448〕 In 1853 the business moved to the Old Church for the Blind in Lord Nelson Street Liverpool.〔〔 The company also obtained buildings and warehouse close by over the following decades.〔〔“Sold to Thomas Cope” Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Friday, August 6, 1875〕 By the 1880s the company was employing nearly 2000 staff and producing multiple brands of snuff, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco 〔 from Tobacco grown abroad and in England 〔Cope Bros letter to the Times. The Times, Monday, Jul 30, 1888〕 It was estimated that in the late 1800s the company was contributing £400,000 to the Exchequer annually〔Hatton, J., "A Day in a Tobacco Factory", Cope's Smoke Room Booklets, No 14, reprinted from the English Illustrated Magazine, January, 1892,〕 The Company became a public in 1885 〔County Gentleman- A Sporting Gazette and Agricultural Journal (London, England), Saturday, October 17, 1885; pg. 1331〕 following the death of Thomas Cope in 1884. George Cope became the first managing director in 1885,〔“Death of George Cope” - The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, February 4, 1888〕 and on his death in 1888 was succeeded by the newspaper-owner John A. Willox.〔 1904 was one of the company’s worse trading years as tobacco duty was increased.〔“Cope Bros and Co Limited” - The Times, Tuesday, Aug 23, 1904〕 John Arnold Cope, the son of Thomas, took over the running of the company and retired from the role of managing director in 1948 to become Chairman.〔“Business Changes” - The Times, Monday, May 10, 1948; pg. 7; Issue 51067〕 he retired completely in 1949 being the last Cope to be involved with the business.〔“Business Changes” - The Times, Thursday, Feb 24, 1949〕 The company was taken over by Gallaher in 1952 〔 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「Cope Bros & Co」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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