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Sugosa.
Sugosa was a small
Czechoslovak-owned company formed as a sugar dealing company by a
Mrs Marie Bernkoff. In 1956 David Mitchell was asked to establish a
Sugosa office in London and to organise all sales and marketing of
their confectionery products for the U.K. market. The London office
designed the sweets - product, wrapping etc. and the products were
made in a factory in Slovakia. The confectionery was distributed to
the retail trades and supermarkets. The company occupied a suite of
offices in Marlon House, Mark Lane, London which is adjacent to
Fenchurch Street Railway Station. In the 1960s there were six
employees at Sugosa: David Mitchell (Managing Director), Stewart
Gibson, Vance Pennington, Bob Warrior and two
secretaries/typists/phone operators. David Mitchell and
Vance Pennington have
both personally assisted greatly with the information on this page,
for which thanks are due and given. David Mitchell, now aged in his
eighties, has his own website (http://www.davidjmitchell.co.uk/index.htm)
and has recently had his memoirs published in a two volume work
entitled ‘A Boy from Nowhere’.
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