Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Ross and Glendining

This is 8 Stafford Street

The firm of Ross and Glendining Limited was founded in Dunedin by John Ross and Robert Glendining. It was initially established as a firm of warehousemen in 1862, with the Roslyn Woollen Mill being built in Kaikorai Valley in 1879. The company expanded to include a nationwide network of warehouse and clothing manufacture facilities. In Dunedin, a clothing factory was established in 1881, a hat factory in 1901, footwear in 1908 and neckwear in 1957. The company was taken over by UEB (United Empire Box) Industries in 1966 and the Roslyn Woollen Mill was acquired by rival Mosgiel Woollens in 1969. (From Friends of the Hocken Collections Bulletin Number 54, May 2006, Business Series 2b, Manufacturing, part 2
http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/pdf/hoc_fr_bulletins/Bull_54_Manufacturing2.pdf

There is a book written about Ross and Glendining called Doing Well and Doing Good an over view of this can be found here http://eh.net/book_reviews/doing-well-and-doing-good-ross-glendining-%E2%80%93-scottish-enterprise-new-zealand Which provides an overview of the company history in passing.
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