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Crawford and Company was a major grocery store in the early days of Adelaide; for many years the largest family owned concern in the colony. ==History== The founder, H. A. Crawford (ca.1824–1881), who had previously run a grocer's shop in Rundle Street, Adelaide and a tea and coffee shop in Hindley Street, Adelaide, before running a pastoral business (see below). In 1868 he returned to the city to work for the grocery business of Flett and Linklater at No.4 Hindley Street, Adelaide (then the premier retail street). In November 1869 he purchased the business from James Munro Linklater (ca.1809 – 17 December 1882) the sole owner, his business partner and brother-in-law William Flett (ca.1806 – 11 January 1855) having died some fifteen years previously. Businessman Ellis Edwards had purchased the grocery business of W. Morgan at No.24 Hindley Street in July 1869. In April 1875 Crawford purchased the stock and goodwill of Edwards's business and traded as Crawford, Edwards & Co. at No.4 Hindley Street, retaining Edwards as a partner. This partnership was dissolved in January 1878, and the store continued under the same name, but run by H. A. Crawford and his son Robert Hugh Crawford.〔 Edwards opened another store in competition to Crawford, and Crawford rebranded his shop as Crawford & Co. among mutual accusations of bad faith. In September 1881 Hugh Crawford and his son Robert were granted Storekeepers' Colonial Wine Licences.〔 The licence permitted the holder to retail Australian wines in larger quantities (one gallon or more)〕 (the firm still held that licence in 1925). Hugh Crawford died the following month, and his son took over the business. G. Wood, Son & Co. Ltd, ("Woodsons") who were wholesale and retail grocers, sold their retail business to Crawford & Son around 1895. In 1896 Crawfords purchased Finlayson & Co.'s stores at Avenue Road, Mount Lofty. and 70 King William Street, which later premises was re-opened as "R. Crawford & Co." on 3 October 1896 and the Hindley Street shop closed. The premises, attracting an annual rent of £240, amongst many others owned by Jacob Montefiore, was auctioned after his death, and was knocked down to W. Kuhnel for £5,250. In 1933 Crawford & Co was purchased by Sydney Oscar Beilby (ca.1880 – 3 February 1944), who sold up his businesses in 1938, and was in turn taken over by Wilkinson and Co. in 1949, but continued to trade as a subsidiary, S. O. Beilby Ltd. 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「Crawford and Son」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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