The Good Old Days

[bigjim]

It seems to be accepted that SSOB has gone down hill under Humphrey Smiths time at the helm - and I've seen fond references to his father on this site - but he died in 1964 for goodness sake! Can somebody please enlighten me as to who  was running the business from then? - Humphrey would have been aged 20 and his brother 17. Surely someone else must have had their hand on the tiller - or was the empire on autopilot?

Cheers.

[passedit]

The mother was at the helm until she was killed in a car crash in 1990 (I was in the training centre at the time)

[brokefree]

We was working for sam,s when mother was in control was a fantastic company to work for  even when she died it was good for a few years they had good structure only went down hill when hump started getting involved

[larry]

Yes, mother was a very nice person, and she was strong minded. She ran a very good ship, shame she died so early, not having the time to 'school' the boys into the business.

[dogsboddy]

 where is everyone ? its gone all quiet

[SILLYSOD]

all down job centre............lol

[BlackDog]

Maybe they are just all keeping Mum!

[antthe2nd]

bloody hell blackdog,was that humour?

[OnTheDrink]

bloody hell blackdog,was that humour?

That would be black (dog) humour!

[neveragain]

When the father died HRWS took control his brother OGWS was still in education at the time. There was in place a board of directors responsible for the various functions within the company, for instance David Tyne was the tied trade director. Slowly has the board members retired they were never replaced hence why you now only have two directors. If I scratch my head foe a while I could maybe rember all their names.

[yorkie]

According to the last published accounts (1982) which are on this site under ''Samuel Smiths information & documents'', the directors at that time were;
Humphrey Smith
Oliver Smith
A Auton
D A Wolstenholme
J E Johnson
F D McGregor
A Ross

No indication who was responsible for what, but no doubt a great deal of experience to keep things running properly.

[neveragain]

Hi Yorkie, I go back further than that with ss

[yorkie]

So what were each of the 5 non-Smith directors responsible for? If it needed 7 directors then. no wonder the company is struggling iwth only 2 now.

[neveragain]

Hi yorkie,

Your answers.

A Auton       Company Secretary
A Ross         Head Brewer
F D McGregor    Accountant
J E Johnson      Tied Trade
D A Wolsenholme    Brewery Operations & Distribution

[OldBreweryDrinker]

Just had a quick look at the registration for the brewery and there appears to be a new Company Secretary appointed in November last year called Mark Richard Butler, who took over from Norman Scarr. So there appears to be at least 3 directors at the brewery or main company.

http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/samuel-smith-old-brewery-%28tadcaster%29

also found a subsidiary company Oglethorpe management has another director called   MR NICHOLAS JAMES FENNELL

http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/oglethorpe-management-company