WM. BRANDT'S SONS & CO.
The Story of a Family Trading Company
$96.92
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2022
Summary
The merchant, Paul Brandt, moved from Stettin (now in Poland) to Hamburg in 1686. His business prospered and four generations later, fifteen-year-old Wilhelm Brandt was apprenticed to the merchant Alexander Christian Becker in Archangel. Trading flourished in a variety of commodities including timber, flax, skins and sugar, and in 1805 Wilhelm’s older brother Emanuel Heinrich moved to London and set up the agency for the Archangel business which subsequently became the family bank.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781838395353 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1838395350 |
| Author: | Peter Augustus Brandt |
| Publisher: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Unicorn Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Peter Augustus Brandt
Peter Augustus Brandt (ninth generation) was born in 1931, and after Eton, Cambridge and national service in the Royal Navy joined Wm Brandt’s in 1954, becoming managing director in 1966. After the bank’s successes in the 1960s, it was taken over by National and Grindlays and eventually sold in 1972, 160 years after its founding.
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