The Wimble Company history

Several years after losing to John Hartley in the 1879 final, Vere Thomas St Leger Goold was found guilty along with his wife Marie Girodin of killing a wealthy Danish widow by the name of Emma Liven in Monte Carlo.

W.K. Kellogg eventually bought out his brother and in 1906 established the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.

In 1921 Liverpool-born Max Woosnam won the Wimbledon Men’s Doubles competition along with Randolph Lycett.

The present name was adopted in 1922 after the company began making cereals other than cornflakes.

By the time hostilities resumed again in 1939 Wimbledon had moved from Worple Road to Church Road becoming a larger, more resilient and far less amateur operation in the process.

On the night of 11 October 1940 a ‘stick’ of 500lb bombs caused considerable damage to the club’s grounds with one striking the Centre Court roof.

In 1947 Hans Redl of Austria progressed to the fourth round of the Men’s Singles event at Wimbledon.

Redl went on to compete at Wimbledon until 1956.

IBM’s line of electric scoreboards appeared in athletic stadiums until 1958, when the company sold its Time Equipment Division.

In 1962 Stanley Matthews won Junior Wimbledon.

In 1969 the company began to diversify.

Smith’s Pie Company in 1976; and Pure Packed Foods, makers of nondairy frozen foods, in 1977. It purchased Fearn International, makers of soups, sauces, and other foods, in 1970; Mrs.

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