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A long tradition of dedicated customer service
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On the 1st
January 1880, Hugh Jamison and Isaac Green founded the company
which is today, over 120 years later, still known as Jamison
and Green. |
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first known inventory of stock was recorded in 1890 and included
weights of ‘best’ iron, sheet iron, staff hoof iron
and cast iron; pots, ovens, boilers, corrugated sheet iron,
nails, hay forks, kettles, farmers’ knives, hickory hammer
shafts, smiths’ anvils and bellows; fencing wire, chisels
and nuts and bolts. The range of spades and shovels held at
the time was an interesting feature of the list; shovels with
the prefixes bright point, small black, drain, County Down square,
County Down round, steel socket, furnace, potato, coal and English:
Spades also of different types clay, navvy, and garden.
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Under the various generations of the Green family the business
expanded and grew through a culture of hard work; no advertising,
just treating customers large and small as the most important
people and regularly reviewing the range of stock on offer.
Innovations such as the introduction of a yacht chandlery department
in the early 50’s helped the company’s growth along
with sales into specialist markets such as Education and Local
Government departments. The first travelling salesman was appointed
in 1961; another business booster.
The company is still today at the original site in Ann Street,
although land acquisition and expansion over the years sees
a very different and modern aspect to the premises. The trading
culture is also very much the same insofar as supplying the
local clientele with the exact requirements of the day, with
customer service and added value the key phrases. |
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