| 词条 | Bright and Hitchcocks |
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Bright and Hitchcocks was a department store in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, operating on the same site from 1855 to 1979. The building remains today on the south-east corner of Moorabool and Little Malop Streets in central Geelong. BeginningsThe business had its origins in 1850, after three brothers, G.M., William and W.M. Hitchcock, emigrated from London to Geelong with a cargo of merchandise and opened a store in Yarra Street. In 1853, William Bright, who had a shop in Moorabool Street, formed a partnership with G.M. and W.M. Hitchcock, and the new firm traded as Bright & Co. After Bright's retirement, the Hitchcock brothers continued to trade as Bright & Hitchcocks.[1] By 1926, when the company was sold to five of its senior employees, it was the largest department store in provincial Victoria. The son of one of the founding brothers, Howard Hitchcock, was the last of the family to be involved with the store, retiring in 1927.[2] ChangesBright and Hitchcocks became a public company in 1950 with almost 600 shareholders. In 1959, the company was purchased by Cox Brothers, which was a major Australian retailer, operating over 100 stores.[3] Cox Brothers ran into financial problems and went into receivership in 1966.[4] In March 1968, the store was sold to new owners, who changed the name to "Brights", the name by which the store had been known for many years previously. It was sold again, in January 1969, to Sydney-based Burns Philp and Co., who renamed the store "Mates", as part of the company's Albury, NSW-based department store chain. The final sale was in 1976 when Chas Moore took over the lease, changing the name again, this time to "Moores". ClosureMoores closed in 1979, and the building was divided into a number of smaller shops at the street level. The upper floors have since been empty, but the basement was occupied by a Spotlight fabric store until 2005. The exterior of the building underwent a repaint and minor refurbishment in 2006. Images
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Bright & Hitchcocks Pty. Ltd.|url=http://xena.lib.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/library?form=Accessions-new-3.all&accessio_1=61&accessio_2=4|website=University of Melbourne Archives Database Search|accessdate=2017-04-09|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613192918/http://xena.lib.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/library?form=Accessions-new-3.all&accessio_1=61&accessio_2=4|archivedate=2007-06-13}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148715368 |title=Death of Mr G. M. Hitchcock. |newspaper=Geelong Advertiser |issue=20,299 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 May 1912 |accessdate=5 December 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Cox Brothers (Australia) Ltd (1928 - )|url=http://www.gabr.net.au/biogs/ABE0060b.htm|website=Guide to Australian Business Records|publisher=Archive Research Consultancy|accessdate=2017-04-09}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Humphries|first1=Michael E.|title=Richardson, Sir Horace Frank (1901–1983)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richardson-sir-horace-frank-14452|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=Australian National University|accessdate=2017-04-09}} Further reading
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