- Title Pages
- About the Author
- Frontispiece
- Acknowledgements
- Figure and Tables
- Introduction: The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892-1919
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Chapter 1 Furness' Shipping Services: Growth by Organic Means in the 1880s -
Chapter 2 The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion -
Chapter 3 Diversification into the Industrial Sector, 1895-1901 -
Chapter 4 Trouble on the Transatlantic Route: The Formation of the IMM and Furness' Response -
Chapter 5 The Growth of Shipping Services, 1902-1909 -
Chapter 6 Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914 -
Chapter 7 The Growth of the Shipping Interests, 1910-1919 -
Chapter 8 Structure -
Chapter 9 Finance -
Chapter 10 Holding Company Investment Activities and Intermediary Operations -
Chapter 11 Personnel -
Chapter 12 Furness -
Chapter 13 Dissolution -
Appendix 1 Deployment of the Combined Fleet, 1900-1919 -
Appendix 2a Patterns of Ownership: The Furness Group, 1919 -
Appendix 2b Reorganization of Branch Offices and Superintending Departments, 1911-1912 -
Appendix 3a Fluctuations in Freights, Profits, Tonnage Afloat and Merchant Shipping Output -
Appendix 3b Output of Merchant Tonnage (Excluding Warships), 1892-1913 -
Appendix 3c Fluctuations in the Price of a 7500-ton Cargo Steamer, 1898-1913 -
Appendix 4 Development of the Furness Group: Principal Promotions, Acquisitions and Divestments, 1880-1919 -
Appendix 5 Northern Allies and Maritime Associates -
Appendix 6: Contemporary Accounting Law and Conventions, 1845-1914 -
Appendix 7 Lord Furness' Movements, 1899-1912 - Bibliography
The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion
The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion
- Chapter:
- (p.35) Chapter 2 The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion
- Source:
- The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise
- Author(s):
Gordon Boyce
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter follows the actions of the Furness Group during the 1890s, commenting on expansion through acquisition and promotion. In particular, it examines the three expansion methods utilised by Christopher Furness: purchasing firms to acquire their routes and tonnage; entering joint ventures with shipping companies based in Liverpool, London, Hull, and ventures with other industries; and by selling shares in single-ship companies on a larger scale. In doing so, it covers the surge of growth between 1895 and 1901; subsidised services; and the role of branch offices. Finally, it provides a breakdown of the Furness Group’s financial performance between 1892 and 1900. It concludes that Furness’ expansion methods and sharp decision-making were successful and as a result the company flourished while Britain’s trade grew in both volume and complexity.
Keywords: Transatlantic Shipping, Frederick Leyland and Company, Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship Company, Subsidised Shipping
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- Title Pages
- About the Author
- Frontispiece
- Acknowledgements
- Figure and Tables
- Introduction: The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892-1919
-
Chapter 1 Furness' Shipping Services: Growth by Organic Means in the 1880s -
Chapter 2 The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion -
Chapter 3 Diversification into the Industrial Sector, 1895-1901 -
Chapter 4 Trouble on the Transatlantic Route: The Formation of the IMM and Furness' Response -
Chapter 5 The Growth of Shipping Services, 1902-1909 -
Chapter 6 Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914 -
Chapter 7 The Growth of the Shipping Interests, 1910-1919 -
Chapter 8 Structure -
Chapter 9 Finance -
Chapter 10 Holding Company Investment Activities and Intermediary Operations -
Chapter 11 Personnel -
Chapter 12 Furness -
Chapter 13 Dissolution -
Appendix 1 Deployment of the Combined Fleet, 1900-1919 -
Appendix 2a Patterns of Ownership: The Furness Group, 1919 -
Appendix 2b Reorganization of Branch Offices and Superintending Departments, 1911-1912 -
Appendix 3a Fluctuations in Freights, Profits, Tonnage Afloat and Merchant Shipping Output -
Appendix 3b Output of Merchant Tonnage (Excluding Warships), 1892-1913 -
Appendix 3c Fluctuations in the Price of a 7500-ton Cargo Steamer, 1898-1913 -
Appendix 4 Development of the Furness Group: Principal Promotions, Acquisitions and Divestments, 1880-1919 -
Appendix 5 Northern Allies and Maritime Associates -
Appendix 6: Contemporary Accounting Law and Conventions, 1845-1914 -
Appendix 7 Lord Furness' Movements, 1899-1912 - Bibliography