NOTEBOOK “α” (“ALPHA”)

MORIDE, “MULTIPLE STORES”

Pierre Moride , “Multiple-Store Firms in France and Abroad”,
Paris, 1913 (Alcan). (Review in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv , IV,
1, p. 286.)

| | Branches |
| --- | --- |
| Britain | | 497 | firms with | 20,644 |
| Germany | | 14,453 | ”  ” | 34,464 | | (of which 31 , 799 are shops or larger stores |
| | ↓ | | ↓ | | ↓ |
| |
| | No. of employees | | 926,369 | — — — | 473,077 | |
| |
| France . . . . . . ? | | 12,000 |
| | 50,000 | | manual and non-manual employees |
| | 125 | | million francs wages |

— — — “a manifestation of the process of concentration which is seen
in trade as well as in manufacturing industry” (p. 286).