Royal grocer Fortnum and Mason is expanding to Hong Kong.
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Kate Hobhouse, chairman of Fortnum & Mason, said: “This also represents a significant opportunity for Fortnum’s British suppliers, who produce 86% of the retailer’s products in the U.K.” The business has come a long way since 1707, when builder William Fortnum took a post as footman in Queen Anne’s household and started selling Her Majesty’s half-used candle wax at a profit.During the Victorian era, the store provided food for prestigious court functions, and Queen Victoria was even reputed to have sent shipments of Fortnum and Mason’s concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale’s hospitals during the Crimean War.
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