5 MAY 1939, page 42

* * * * Spillers Higher Profits

Flour-milling in Great Britain is very largely in the hands of three companies : Ranks, Spillers and the Co-operative Whole- sale Society. The Co-operative Wholesale Society is......

Sir Auckland Geddes Was Naturally Not Able To Tell The

shareholders of the Rio Tinto Company that there had as yet been relief from the disabilities under which the com- pany is operating in Spain. On the contrary, he showed that......

H.e. Proprietary

Sir Frederick Hamilton had one disappointment to record at last week's meeting of H.E. Proprietary. West Spaarwater, in which H.E. Proprietary is largely interested, has found......

The Vast Unilever Combine Which, With Its Interests...

the world, comprises one of the largest industrial undertakings in existence has not failed to feel the effect of international tension and its concomitant exchange restrictions......

Company Meeting

THE LONDON ASIATIC RUBBER AND PRODUCE COMPANY, LIMITED AT the annual general meeting of the above company on May 1st, the Chairman, Mr. H. J. Welch, said: In 1938 the rubber......

Marks And Spencer Results

The chain store groups competing in the lower-priced section of the retail trade are less immediately affected by changes in the economic outlook than some of those shops which......