Goldberg family

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The Goldberg's Department Store in Edinburgh, which Ephraim Goldberg and Michael (Melach) Goldberg took over from their father Abraham in 1934.

In 1908 Abraham Goldberg arrived in Glasgow from Dublin, Eire with his wife and son. He set up as a one man business buying bales of cloth and making them up into piece goods for sale to wholesalers. Originally based in Gorbals, Glasgow, by the early 1920s he had established himself in Candleriggs, Glasgow. The new larger Candleriggs premises allowed him to move into the wholesale business himself and he was later joined in the enterprise by his sons, Ephraim and Michael. In 1938 annual profits reached £51,302 and the firm was incorporated and floated on the stock exchange as A Goldberg & Sons Ltd. By this time the company sold virtually anything and offered favourable credit terms to its account holders. In 1963 the firm opened a second store at Tollcross, Edinburgh and in the late 1960s and early 1970s it acquired the businesses of Room Service (Contracts) and Dansk Mobel Centre. At the same time it also built a new warehouse and office complex at Rutherglen, Glasgow as part of a short lived joint venture with Allied Suppliers for superstores in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The complex was closed and sold in 1975 and the venture with Allied Suppliers ended in 1976. Following these difficulties, the company began to recover and in 1979 it moved into the youth market by launching the Wrygges clothing store brand. Two years later it launched the Style card, a form of in-store credit card and in 1982 it had 1865 staff. The Style card expanded rapidly and could soon be used in outlets, other than just Goldberg's stores. In November 1985 a 60% share in the company's Style Financial Services subsidiary was sold to The Royal Bank of Scotland and three years later the remaining 40% was also bought by the bank. The money from this sale allowed Goldberg's to expand the Wrygges chain and in 1986 it acquired the Mona Lewis business of women's fashion stores trading under the Virgo name. These stores were converted to Wrygges stores and in 1987 Goldberg's added the Schuh shoe brand to their range. In 1988 the company had 150 stores, but it entered liquidation in 1990 . Source: J Webster and A Young, The Goldberg Story: 1908-1988, (Glasgow, 1988).

Mother of Anna Naomi Horovitz and Private Sister of Ephraim Goldberg; Michael Goldberg;

• Isaac Goldberg
  • Abraham Goldberg (1880 - 1948)(D 14 December 1948) m. Miriam Bessie Goldberg (nee Margulies/Margolis) (1880 - 1951)
    • Ephraim Goldberg(1907 - 1986) m. Clarisse Goldberg (nee Schamisso) (1915 - 2004)
      • Mark Monash Goldberg (born September 1938)
    • Michael (Melach) Goldberg (1908 - 1982) m. Irene Malca Goldberg (Cohen) (1921 - 2006)
      • David Goldberg
    • Rachel Landau (nee Goldberg)(1910 - 1994) - Wife of Frederic Moses Landau
    • Sadie Goldberg (1913 - 1913)
    • Milly Goldberg (1914 - 1914)

• • Sharon Esta Goldberg m. Geoffrey Philip Ognall
• Mr. and Mrs. M. Goldberg, 184 Hospital Street.
  • Abe Goldberg married Celia Goldberg (nee Wolfson) September 1939.

Companies and charities

A. Goldberg & Sons plc | Goldberg Family Charitable Trust | Mark Goldberg Charitable Trust

Many key names in the Caledonian Cousinhood including from the Goldberg family, Wolfson family, Woolfson family, Levinson family/Livingston family, Golombok family, Furst family, Sragowitz family, Gerber family and many others; from the Jewish Echo, 11 January 1929.

Resources

• https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/295e938e-124e-37fb-ba37-7ac40ff75383