IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 10

IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION.

ED. REECE AND SONS, LTD. AITKEN AND ROBERTS, LTD. As if in the manner of signalising the commencement of the New Year, the commercial world of Christchurch has just learned of the amalgamation of two of the best-known hardware houses, those of Messrs Ed. Reece and Sons, Ltd., and Messrs Aitken and Roberts, Ltd. ' . The firms in question are business organisations in this city, both widely known, the former having been in existence fifty-seven years, while the latter firm are junior to them, having been established in 1879. The attractive feature of this combination of commercial forces is, that it will give the company now being formed to carry out the scheme, the concentrated power of business activity and energy which will, as it is developed, prove an essential factor, and supply the force which will prove in the near future to bo of great value to those interested in the company as shareholders. The shares of the company are now being placed on the market, and aro being rapidly taken up by the public in Christchurch and throughout Canterbury ; and of the various projects subscribed to by the public of recent years, this one is one of the most attractive that has been placed before them. Applications for shares may be obtained from the members of the Chrisfcchurch Stock Exchange. 1