London's Oldest Family-Owned Businesses
Harry Rosehill London's Oldest Family-Owned Businesses In an age of buy-outs and corporate takeovers, it may come as a surprise that some major London businesses are still family-owned. These companies are still run by descendants of their original founder, their most valuable heirloom passed down through multiple generations. Here are London's seven oldest: 1. Creed - 1760 In 1760 James Henry Creed's delivered a pair of scented gloves to the new monarch, King George III. The gloves came from Creed, the company that he had just founded. It started as a tailoring company but the focus q...
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