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So last week Nate Cummings sat in a new walnut-paneled office backed by a carved lion's head on the wall-the trademark of Reid, Murdoch's "Monarch" brand, which he now owns, along with the "Yacht Club" and Sprague, Warner's "Richelieu" and "None-Such...
In a very real sense Nate Cummings owns them, for although Commercial Credit Co. and various banks have financed some of his deals, he does not favor spreading his stock control around. His formula is to buy old, established companies, sweep out the cobwebs and make them pay by efficient...
Chicago's extraordinary Duke of Groceries annexed another province to his growing duchy. Canadian-born Nathan Cummings, who became a wholesale grocer only five years ago, when he took charge of Baltimore's ailing 72-year-old Kenny Co., is now one of the biggest wholesale grocers in...
The manner of the purchase was indicative of Nate Cummings' procedure. Last February he took a vacation in Palm Springs and one day rode horseback so hard that he developed a sore, which turned into a carbuncle. Still laid up (when he returned to Chicago), he had to miss...
Nate Cummings plans his new Consolidated Grocers Corp. to be the General Motors of the grocery business, i.e., like Buick and Chevrolet, Reid, Murdoch would compete with Sprague, Warner for sales. Consolidated's various divisions include canners. manufacturers, importers, exporters and distributors of foods-its different branches maintaining their...