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Women firefighters at Boxfoldiam Bournbrook, 1942
Janice, it looks like they shut down and taken by a MBO and now absorbed into Alexir Packaging Ltd.According to wikipaedia
Charles Henry Foyle (18 March 1878 – 9 December 1948) was an English businessman who invented the folding carton. He founded Boxfoldia in Birmingham in 1920, a company that was finally sold in 2003. ... Charles Henry Foyle was born in Hoxton, London. His brother William and Gilbert Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in London.
According to Companies House
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Izzy, I believe it is a part of Alexir Packaging Ltd., now.A company named Boxfoldia still exists and is now making cartons in Redditch, it may have no connection to the earlier one though
Well, there is a lot going with the steady job with clearly laid out terms and conditions. I have rode the commercial rollercoaster several times. It can be fun and financially rewarding but it can also quickly punish you. Its ok for people who like the monkey business. I did not mind, but it is a close call.Interesting thread. After interview in 1973, I was offered a commercial apprenticeship. I did not take up this opportunity as the managers who interviewed me could give me no indication of what I would be paid. it would depend on me negotiating with the company secretary, after I had accepted. By contrast Post Office Telecommunications had a clear pay scale, so I worked there instead. Life could have been very different on the road not taken. I got the impression that this was an old fashioned company where employees might be paid as the employer decided and there was no agreed rate for the job.
I was 17 and this would have been my first full time job. I had no experience of 'negotiating' with anyone and no father to advise me. Of course there is monkey business and 'negotiation' in the public sector too, universities turned themselves into businesses too. We can expect some bumpy developments there soon.Well, there is a lot going with the steady job with clearly laid out terms and conditions. I have rode the commercial rollercoaster several times. It can be fun and financially rewarding but it can also quickly punish you. Its ok for people who like the monkey business. I did not mind, but it is a close call.
Yes. I hope some of the entrepreneurs who went into universities with little interest in education, but much in self promotion and profit, soon take a tumble - hopefully without too much damage to the studentsI was 17 and this would have been my first full time job. I had no experience of 'negotiating' with anyone and no father to advise me. Of course there is monkey business and 'negotiation' in the public sector too, universities turned themselves into businesses too. We can expect some bumpy developments there soon.
I won't cause thread drift, but there are plenty of academics who climbed the slippery pole until they have no contact with students may take a tumble too.Yes. I hope some of the entrepreneurs who went into universities with little interest in education, but much in self promotion and profit, soon take a tumble - hopefully without too much damage to the students
Stockier, I think you made the right decision!Interesting thread. After interview in 1973, I was offered a commercial apprenticeship. I did not take up this opportunity as the managers who interviewed me could give me no indication of what I would be paid. it would depend on me negotiating with the company secretary, after I had accepted. By contrast Post Office Telecommunications had a clear pay scale, so I worked there instead. Life could have been very different on the road not taken. I got the impression that this was an old fashioned company where employees might be paid as the employer decided and there was no agreed rate for the job.