Man For Our Time (Robert Laidlaw: the Founder of Farmers)
By Ian C Hunter.
Description
This is a biography of Robert Laidlaw, the founder of Farmers department store, who was a contemporary of great US Christian businessmen such as Robert Le Tourneau and Henry Heinz, the founder of The Heinz Company. In 1909, Laidlaw started what became the fastest-growing company in New Zealand history and the country's biggest department store chain. Using innovative management and marketing techniques, Laidlaw not only built a successful company but demonstrated how the Christian faith could be lived out in the marketplace. The biography reveals Laidlaw's reflections on profit, s...
ISBN(s)
1927181003, 9781927181003
