J. & E. Cruickshank

J. & E. CRUICKSHANK, Wholesale Stationers, South Portland Street, Glasgow.

    The fine old business of Wholesale and Export Stationers, carried on by Messrs. J. & E. Cruickshank, at Nos. 15, 17, and 19, South Portland Street, was established in the year 1876 by the present members of the firm, and, under their efficient management, has been successfully continued up to the present date. The handsome premises occupied, comprising three commodious flats, have a street frontage of over thirty feet, with magnificent plate glass windows extending the whole length of the warehouse.

    The interior is admirably appointed, the ground floor consisting of a spacious room, thirty feet by twenty, and fitted up after the most approved fashion with counters and shelves, etc., of the most appropriate kind and thoroughly suited to the business carried on. These are filled with a large and valuable stock of high-class papers, the several other rooms in Messrs. Cruickshank’s very considerable establishment also being heavily stocked with a varied assortment of papers of all kinds and for all purposes.
The firm enjoy a wide and influential business throughout the various parts of England and Scotland, and do a large export trade in all kinds of stationery.

    The extensive patronage accorded them for some years past enables them to employ a numerous and efficient staff, by which the work of the various departments is executed with promptitude and in a thoroughly practical and business-like manner. The Messrs. Cruickshank are gentlemen well known and highly respected in the neighbourhood, and are perfectly deserving of the success which has attended their united efforts in performing the arduous duties of their ever-growing and popular business.

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