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While Ross was developing his fish merchanting activities, he recognised that the future of the fishing industry lay in integrating fish catching, processing, and merchanting. He built the first diesel trawlers in the mid-1930s. He purchased nine more vessels in 1943 and acquired a majority
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In the early 1950s, Carl Ross extended the frozen fish business to become Ross Foods and acquired Youngs shellfish company. In 1956 Ross secured twenty
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Carl Ross parted company with the Ross Group after a boardroom struggle in the late 1960s, which culminated in the take-over of the company by
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Carl (John) Ross was the fourth of six children of Thomas Ross, founder of a fish merchanting firm of the same name. Carl Ross was educated at
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cotton salesman in 1928. They had two sons and two daughters. He obtained a pilot's licence and played an active role in the
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