Bertram Books

Bertram Books

Bertram Books Ltd is the second largest United Kingdom based wholesaler of books,cite news |title=Elsie Bertram |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/10/db1002.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/11/10/ixportal.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2003-11-09 |accessdate=2008-04-29 ] owned since 2007 by the Woolworths Group. [cite news |title=Acquisition of Bertram by Woolworths approved by CC. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32799185_ITM |work=M2 Best Books |date=2007-09-04 |accessdate=2008-04-29 ] It has 150,000 titles available for same-day despatch and has access to over 600k books in print.

The company was founded in 1971 by Elsie Bertram and her son Kip, based on a business which Elsie had been running since 1965 in a chicken shed in the garden of her Norwich home. It had and still does have independent booksellers as its core customers.

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External links

* [http://www.bertrambooks.co.uk/ Bertram Books official website]


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