- 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
Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914
Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914
- Chapter:
- (p.143) Chapter 6 Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914
- Source:
- The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise
- Author(s):
Gordon Boyce
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter examines the operations of the Furness Group’s industrial holdings between 1900 and 1914, and investigates the reasons for their varied performance. It considers Christopher Furness’ strategy in attempt to determine how appropriate it was, plus the effectiveness of policy implementation and how broader economic conditions influenced profitability. It also explores the support networks between allied enterprises and the commercial ties that arose within the Furness Group. It considers the capabilities and output of the Furness-owned shipyards during the period; the pattern of group shipbuilding orders; in-depth commentaries on the performance of the Furness Group’s engineering, steel, and coal interests and sub-companies; plus the links between the company’s shipping and steel interests. It concludes that Furness was both a bold investor and a defensive strategist, and that though operational difficulties arose when absorbing companies the vast majority survived as part of the Furness Group.
Keywords: Shipping Operations, British Shipyards, Shipyard Economics, British Shipbuilding, British Coal, British Steel Companies
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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
