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JB Young's was a chain of retail department stores, originally founded in the Australian, New South Wales country town of Queanbeyan, by businessman and country traveler, James Buchanan Young, during 1914. James Young, originally from Ireland, had immigrated to Australia during 1885, arriving first in Sydney. By the 20th century, James Young had settled in country NSW and was working for Dutton Brothers, in Blayney. Moving to Queanbeyan in 1914, James Young quickly established what would be JB Young's first store, in Queanbeyan's main street. Business was hard during these years with the First World War underway and harsh economic conditions. After the decision to locate Australia's new capital Canberra in the 1920s, one of the JB Young's managers Mr HG Colman, then crossed the NSW border into the nation's new capital and purchased the first block of commercial property ever being offered. This was over at the Eastlake shopping precinct and was purchased for 2,050 pounds. This occurred early in December, 1924. Building work commenced immediately and initially the original Eastlake store, which would a short time later become known as Kingston, was opened in stages between 1925-27. These were pioneering times for the Nations capital, as not even Canberra's Civic centre precinct had been established at this time. In 1926, the firm saw a staff management buyout, with fellow directors, Mr Webb, Mr Greenwood, together with Mr HG Colman, taking ownership. By 1928, James Young had decided to fully retire and a farewell dinner was held, with Mr and Mrs Young then from that moment on retiring to Manly, in Sydney's north. ==Expansion== The firm continued to grow. After the Kingston store had been established, efforts were made to establish another new store this time in Civic. This became the store at Garema Place. Post war activity and major building work in Canberra, during the 1950s and 60's, saw Canberra expand and JB Young's, with it. In 1960, JB Young became a public company and they were listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. This would see the growth of even more stores, especially outside the ACT. Around 1966, the Kingston store had expanded with another level being added and had undergone further refurbishment. A few years later during 1970, JB Young's expanded considerably, taking over the Fossey's retail store group. Fosseys had been established in 1926 with its earliest store having been established in George Street Sydney, by Alfred Bristow Fossey. By 1971, JB Young's had managed to form a strong retail presence whithin the ACT and surrounding areas of country NSW. Young's had the original store in Monaro St Queanbeyan, the one in Giles Street Kingston, plus the store in Garema Place, Civic. Also there were other JB Young stores around Canberra, including Dickson, Manuka, Curtin, Jamison and Aranda. With all the growth, additional facilities had been needed. Prior to 1971, JB Young's had established three main warehouses in the Canberra industrial suburb of Fyshwick. This included a central warehouse in Yallourn St, an electrical warehouse in Barrier St and a food and catering warehouse, located at 36 Geelong St. Interestingly, the Geelong Street site was also connected directly to the Canberra to Sydney, rail line. This allowed JB Young to receive bulk grocery supplies for its food outlets. JB Young's also operated a television servicing business out of the Barrier St Fyshwick site, a sound centre over in Green Square Kingston and a building materials supply business, out of its Monaro Street Queanbeyan site. Shortly after 1971, JB Young's made yet another acquisition, this time taking over Canberra and Country NSW retailer, Charles Rogers & Sons, who had established a store in East Row, Civic. Charles Rogers and Sons had originally been founded in Goulburn, early on as a cabinet making business before becoming retail universal providers, during 1879. The Charles Rogers business had prospered particularly well with the expansion and development of the NSW railway network as it grew into the Southern area of NSW. After the death of Charles Rogers in 1909, his sons took over the Rogers business. However, by 1947, the Charles Rogers business had been sold to Burns Philp. It was around 1971, that Burns Philp had then sold it to JB Young's. The Charles Rogers East Row store, was originally built and opened during 1955. After the take over of Rogers, as it was known in the ACT, the Rogers East Row store was fully rebranded as JB Young's. The former Rogers building, consisted of a basement, a ground floor and an upper first floor. JB Young's would assign the basement for hardware, the ground floor for men's and women's apparel, whilst the first floor was for other clothing and haberdashery. The takeover of another long established country retailer J B Meagher and Co of Goulburn, followed shortly after during 1974. Also by late 1974, Young's as it was now known, had also found a place in the newly built Stage 2 development, of the Woden Plaza shopping centre, located in Philip. This further modernised its reach, particularly in local retailing. Rationalisation though, occurred in 1978, with the nearby JB Youngs store in Manuka, closing that year. 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「J. B. Young Ltd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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