Bertram books

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Bertram Books Ltd is the largest United Kingdom based wholesaler of books,[1] owned since 2007 by the Woolworths Group.[2] It has 200,000 titles available for same-day despatch and has access to over 2.6m books in print.

The company was founded in 1971 by Elsie Bertram and her son Kip, based on a business which Elsie had been running since 1965 in a chicken shed in the garden of her Norwich home.[1] It had and still does have independent booksellers as its core customers.

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  1. ^ a b "Elsie Bertram", The Daily Telegraph, 2003-11-09. Retrieved on 2008-04-29. 
  2. ^ "Acquisition of Bertram by Woolworths approved by CC.", M2 Best Books, 2007-09-04. Retrieved on 2008-04-29. 

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