APPENDIX D.
Firms included in Appendix B as having abandoned Profit-sharing who made arrangements for
receiving Investments from Employees, and the nature of such Investments.
N.B.— P.F. in the column as to Nature of Investment means a Pension or Provident Fund.
Name of Firm.
Nature of Business and Number
of Employees at date of
abandonment of Profit-sharing.
Nature of
Investment.
Duration
of Scheme.
Cause of Cessation of
Profit-sharing.
Henry Briggs, Son & Co., Ltd.
Coal mining (1203) ...
Shares
1865-75
Dissatisfaction of employees.
Greening & Co., Ltd.
Wire netting, &c., manufacture*
Shares
1865-68
Liquidation.
South Buckley Coal and Fire Brick
Coal mining and fire brick making*
Shares
1866-?
Liquidation.
Co., Ltd.
Cobden Memorial Mills Co., Ltd. ...
Cotton manufacture*
Shares
1866-87
Liquidation.
Wardle, Blythe & Co.
Pottery manufacture*
Shares
1867-?
Not known.
Price’s Patent Caudle Co., Ltd. ...
Candle manufacture (900)
Shares
1868-72
Substitution of shorter hours.
North of England Industrial Coal
and Iron Co., Ltd.
Coal and iron mining and iron smel
ting.* /
Shares
1870-?
Dissatisfaction of employers with
results.
Benjamin Collins ...
Bookbinding (200)
Shares (in Capital of
business).
1871-77
Dissatisfaction of employer with
results.
Hamilton & Co., Ltd. (previously
Hamilton & Co.)
Shirt, collar and underlinen manufac
ture, dressmaking and millinery (50).
Deposits (P.F.) and
Shares (in Capital of
business).
1876-91
Liquidation.
Wm. Jacks & Co
Iron merchants (38)
Deposits
1880-1907(?)
Substitution of bonus giving.
Holmes & Co.
Coach making (14) ...
Deposits (P.F.)
1881-99
Want of financial success.
Decorative Co-operators’ Associa
tion, Ltd. (afterwards D’Oyly &
House painting and decorating (60-70)
Shares and Deposits
(P.F.)
1883-93
Liquidation.
Co., Ltd.)
Perrott & Perrott, Ltd.
Packers, elothworkers & finishers, &c.
(110-120).
Deposits
1884-1900
Dissatisfaction with results and
apathy of employees.
* Number of employees not known.
