WHY SALES DWINDLED
Mr. Tliomas Stevens was awarded 1 £I6OO damages in tho King’s Bench division the other day, in the action I he brought against Messrs. B. I I Brown and Co. for wrongful dismissal. The plaintiff was for 25 vears London manager to the defendants, an American boot polish company. In May last he was summarily demised. although ho had then a seven years’ agreement, dated 1903. It j was shown that the company’s business had declined, but the plaintiff said this was not owing to anv fault of his, but was due to the firm cutting down their advertising. The followi.ncr remarkable figures showing the I relation between the profits and advertisements were produced:— Spent on Adverts. Profits 1880 £l3O £264 1881 244 904 1882 654 1683 1900 ISO 560
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19070705.2.45
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2124, 5 July 1907, Page 3
Word Count
133WHY SALES DWINDLED Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2124, 5 July 1907, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in