The company had a start-up capitalization of £400,000 - a massive sum by the standards of the early 20th Century
Every year over the next five years, OCM's share capital doubled - listed at an astonishing £12,000,000 by 1912.
The
History of OCM |
In
the Beginning There was OCM ... |
| Much of the power of the EKOCM marketing platform derives from the huge reputation of its founding company Oriental Carpet Manufacturers - known as OCM. |
| For the first 70 years of the last century, OCM was the best known Oriental carpet company in the world, dominating carpet production in the East, and through its subsidiaries controlling the main consumer markets of the West. |
| OCM was
founded in 1908, from a merger between the six major Oriental carpet manufacturing
companies then in existence.
The company had a start-up capitalization of £400,000 - a massive sum by the standards of the early 20th Century Every year over the next five years, OCM's share capital doubled - listed at an astonishing £12,000,000 by 1912. |
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Part of title page from OCM's 1908 Company Overview showing its original share capital and its five founding firms |
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