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A powerful newcomer has arisen in the U.S. wholesale grocery business. Under the very noses of the alpaca-sleeved grocer barons, dapper, cold-eyed Nathan Cummings, 47, has fashioned himself a duchy. Cummings, boss of Chicago and Baltimore's Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp., wound up in twelve hours of...
For about $1,500,000 Grocer Cummings bought up some 85% of the stock of Western Grocer Co. of Marshalltown, Iowa, one of the biggest wholesale grocers between the Mississippi and the Rockies. By this stroke, he mushroomed his interests over three-quarters of the U.S., acquiring ten canneries and...
Rubber and Candy. Until four years ago, Cummings was doing well as a candy and biscuit maker. Born in St. John, N.B., he went to work at 14. Later, he became his father's partner in a shoe store, branched out into shoe wholesaling, added a sideline of rubber...
In 1934, he sold out his rubber and shoe interests and bought control of McCormick's, Ltd., a candy and biscuit maker of London, Ont. Within three years he was fighting British-controlled George Weston, Ltd. for the Canadian market. Upshot: Weston bought McCormick's, Ltd. but kept...
Labels and Ratholes. Cummings' streamlining is fast and ruthless. He shocks fuddy-duddies in the trade. When he took over Sprague, Warner he found that it was staggering along with some 50,000 descriptive labels because of the traditional practice of buying up trade names when wholesale grocers go...