55:(chairman of directors), K. D. Bowman and A. A. Scarfe. Branches were opened in Broken Hill, Burra, Peterborough, Quorn and Strathalbyn. New wheat and wool stores were erected at Port Adelaide. In 1920 the company took over Alfred C. Catt & Son, and moved their headquarters from King William Street to 54 Currie Street on the corner of Currie and Leigh Streets. In 1960 Bennett and Fisher commissioned a new Georgian style building to be built one block away on the corner of Currie Street and Gilbert Place. The building's front door was flanked by columns each side and arched ground floor windows. They moved into this building in 1961.
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Metropolitan Abattoirs Market. Bennett & Fisher Limited was founded early that year to take over the assets of Bennett & Fisher and Cheadle, Crase & Co., wool and hide brokers. Hugh Davis was appointed
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clothing and footwear company for $ 14 million. They sold the highly profitable Anchor Foods to
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