| Description | A ring bound volume containing J E Greenwood's 'private copy' of expense report. Contents includes a general summary of sales, expenses, profits; comments on results for year; sales (wholesale and manufacturing, retail - cash only, new shop volume, retail sales by departments, supplies to shops, customers served, prescriptions dispensed incl. day and night stores); gross profit (retail and manufacturing); net profit (retail and manufacturing); capital items (increase in assets, merchandise inventory, cash and government securities, capital expenditure, debtors); present capital commitments; total expenses summary; direct store expenses (salaries, miscellaneous, lighting, rent, freight and cartage); store overheads (wages and salaries, travelling expenses, legal expenses, general expenses, depreciation); warehouse and office operating expenses (wages and salaries, repairs and renewals, rents and rates, heat, light and power, general expenses, depreciation); warehouse administrative expenses (advertising expenses); manufacturing operating expenses (Fine Chemical, Saccharin, Milk of Magnesia); manufacturing administrative expenses; other charges (special reserves);
Volume refers to the transfer of manufacturing to Beeston; pensions granted to 'ordinary workpeople or foremen' who had over 20 years service, were based roughly on 6 pence per week per year of service; and the advertising budget (press, sales, window display, samples, etc) for 1932/33 was just under £130,000. |