During the war Harry Smith worked at what pharmacy chain located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories?
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Harry Smith (microbiologist) He was born in Northampton, the son of bookmaker Harry Smith, was educated at Northampton Grammar School and earned a degree in pharmacy at University College Nottingham in 1942. For the rest of the war he worked at Boots in Nottingham on the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, and was awarded a BSc in Chemistry by the University of London.
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Boots UK Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd.), trading as Boots, is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories. The company's former parent, The Boots Company Plc, merged with Alliance UniChem in 2006 to form Alliance Boots. In 2007, Alliance Boots was bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stefano Pessina, taking the company private, and moving its headquarters to Switzerland, the first ever FTSE 100 company bought by a private equity firm. In 2012, Walgreens bought a 45% stake in Alliance Boots, with the option to buy the rest within three years. It exercised this option in 2014, and as a result Boots became a subsidiary of the new company, Walgreens Boots Alliance, on 31 December 2014.
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Texas Homecare Texas Homecare was a chain of DIY stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which once rivalled B&Q, Do It All, and Great Mills. The firm operated from 1972 until 1996, with some stores lasting until 1999.
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Conolly Abel Smith Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith (3 December 1899 – 3 December 1985) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars.
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Pret a Manger Pret a Manger is an international sandwich shop chain based in the United Kingdom, commonly referred to simply as "Pret".
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Duane Reade Duane Reade Inc. (Pronounced: ), a subsidiary of Walgreens Boots Alliance, is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores, primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. The headquarters is located at 440 Ninth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, just near Madison Square Garden; its newest flagship store is located at 40 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan.
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Thomas James Smith Thomas James Smith (1827−1896) was the founder of Smith & Nephew, one of the United Kingdom's largest medical devices businesses.
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John West Foods John West Foods is a United Kingdom-based seafood marketing company established in 1857, and currently owned by Thai Union Group of Thailand. They are known as a producer of canned salmon and tuna, and also supply mackerel, sardine, herring, brisling, anchovies and shellfish.
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Ireland and World War I During World War I (1914–1918), Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which entered the war in August 1914 as one of the Entente Powers, along with France and the Russian Empire. In part as an effect of chain ganging, the UK decided due to geopolitical power issues to declare war on the Central Powers, consisting of the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
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David John Smith The Hon. David John Smith (May 20, 1907 – 1976) was the third son of Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden and Lady Esther Gore. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University and served in the Second World War, gaining the rank of Major in the service of the Royal Artillery.
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Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Services (SWH) was founded in 1914. They provided nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, cooks and orderlies. By the end of World War I 14 medical units had been outfitted and sent to serve in Corsica, France, Malta, Romania, Russia, Salonika and Serbia.
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Hy-Vee Hy-Vee is an employee-owned chain of more than 240 supermarkets located throughout the Midwestern United States in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Hy-Vee was founded in 1930 by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg in Beaconsfield, Iowa, in a small brick building known as the Beaconsfield Supply Store, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Numark (pharmacy) Numark Ltd is a chain of independent pharmacies in the UK. With 3000 outlets throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, they are the largest such chain in the UK.
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Gordons Chemist Gordons Chemists is a chain of more than 60 pharmacies, located in the UK. Gordons Chemists is based primarily in Northern Ireland, with a number of branches also in Scotland; the chain is Northern Ireland's largest independent pharmacy chain.
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Smith &amp; Caughey's Smith & Caughey Ltd, trading as Smith & Caughey's is a mid-sized department store chain (consisting of just two premises) in Auckland, New Zealand, and is considered to be a top-range retail store.
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Hi-School Pharmacy Hi-School Pharmacy Inc. is a chain of drugstores, hardware stores and combination drugstore/hardware stores based out of Vancouver, Washington.
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Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom, operated by Selfridges Retail Limited. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store on London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in the Trafford Centre (1998) and Exchange Square (2002) in Manchester, and in the Bullring in Birmingham (2003).
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Allcures Allcures Group is a pharmacy chain in the UK, with an online presence and a range of outlets in the south east of England.
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Shoppers Food &amp; Pharmacy Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, also known as Shoppers Food Warehouse, is a chain of 52 supermarkets located in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas. Shoppers has fresh produce, Swift Angus beef, Smithfield natural pork, all-natural chicken, Dietz & Watson delis, fresh seafood, steamed shrimp, as well as hot foods, full-service pharmacies.
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Kruidvat Kruidvat is a Dutch retail, pharmacy and drugstore chain specialised in health and beauty products, which also has branches in Belgium. The first Kruidvat was opened in 1975 by Dick Siebrand. In addition to Kruidvat itself, Kruidvat Holding also owned ICI Paris XL and in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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British Society for the History of Pharmacy The British Society for the History of Pharmacy is the organisation in the United Kingdom devoted to the history of pharmacy. The society has published a journal, the "Pharmaceutical Historian", since 1967. It is affiliated to the British Society for the History of Medicine.
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Noel 'Razor' Smith Noel "Razor" Smith (born 24 December 1960 in London, United Kingdom, to Irish immigrant parents: an unemployed and violent father and working mother ) has spent the greater portion of his adult life in prison. Whilst in prison he taught himself to read and write, gained an Honours Diploma from The London School of Journalism and an A-Level in Law. He has been awarded a number of Koestler awards for his writing and has contributed articles to the Independent, the Guardian, Punch, the Big Issue, the New Statesman and the New Law Journal. Smith served a life-sentence for armed robbery. His autobiography, "A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun "was published by Penguin in 2004. He then went on to write "A Rusty Gun: Facing Up To a Life of Crime" in 2010 after serving at the unique rehabilitation prison HMP Grendon, and moving to HMP Blantyre House and being released on 12 May 2010.