Robert Anderson

ROBERT ANDERSON, Letterpress Printer, 22, Ann Street, Glasgow.

    The old-established and very influential house designated above has occupied an honourable position in the trade it so well represents for over half a century. This extensive concern is now conducted by Messrs. John and Robert Anderson, sons of the original founder, Mr. Robert Anderson, and its business will give a fair idea of the progress of the trade in Glasgow.

    The original site of the house was at 85, Queen Street, but, owing to the demand for more space and enlarged facilities, it was subsequently removed to the above address. The Ann Street premises now include a capacious warehouse on the first floor, and a letterpress department, counting-house, and suite of private offices on the floor above. The fittings of the latter are of the most modern and comfortable kind, with every convenience for the control and dispatch of business, including telephonic apparatus. The printing house is also perfectly modern in its equipments, and is equal to the production of first-class work in all departments, whether bookwork or general printing. In the warehouse below heavy trade stocks are stored.

    In the City the house is a favourite one, on account of the high reputation it has so long enjoyed — its leading position in the trade and the enterprising promptitude of its management. Several special lines and specialities of the firm are important, none perhaps more so than its “copying mixture”, manufactured by themselves, and guaranteed to give perfect copies, after having been printed over a number of years, all printed matter copying quite clearly along with any matter that may be written in ordinary copying ink on the printed forms.

    Large staffs of assistants are engaged in the general work of the firm, and the partners in person supervise everything. By their skill and attention — progressive spirit and judicious catering for the needs of their clients — they have fully sustained their widespread reputation, and gained an honourable standing among the go-a-head and successful business men of the great City, with whose progress their firm has been so closely and so long connected.

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