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<blockquote><q>Au bout de cinq ans, Alfred Dunhill fut rejoint par son jeune frère, Herbert, qui avait un grand sens des affaires. Il s'occupa des aspects financiers de l'entreprise laissant Alfred inventer et développer les produits.Ca fonctionnait parfaitement à deux ! Le succès croissant de l'entreprise tenait davantage au bouche à oreilles qu'à la publicité; il n'y en avait pratiquement pas.  
<blockquote><q>Au bout de cinq ans, Alfred Dunhill fut rejoint par son jeune frère, Herbert, qui avait un grand sens des affaires. Il s'occupa des aspects financiers de l'entreprise laissant Alfred inventer et développer les produits.Ca fonctionnait parfaitement à deux ! Le succès croissant de l'entreprise tenait davantage au bouche à oreilles qu'à la publicité; il n'y en avait pratiquement pas.  


Alfred Dunhill retired in 1928 (he lived on until 1959) and the business was run by Herbert until his death in 1950. For many years Herbert lived in Monte Carlo and controlled the day-to-day running by letter, telegram and regular visitors from the London office.</q> Richard Dunhill - Forewords of Balfour, Michael. Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 1992).</blockquote>  
Alfred Dunhill prit sa retraite en 1928 (il vécut jusqu'en 1959) et l'affaire fut ensuite dirigée par Herbert jusqu'à sa mort en 1950. Depuis des années Herbert vivait à Monte Carlo et contrôlait le train-train quotidien avec des lettres, des télégrammes et la venue régulière d'envoyés du bureau de Londres.</q> Richard Dunhill - Forewords of Balfour, Michael. Alfred Dunhill, One Hundred Years and More (Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 1992).</blockquote>  


<blockquote><q>Two male members of the staff took turns to travel to Merano, their bags stuffed with reports, accounts, proposed salary increases and requests that required his signature before they could be implemented. Every week he sent back bags of memorandums and instructions, no detail being too trivial for his critical eye, even the way stamps should be stuck onto office envelopes and the space that should be left between them if they happened not to be of the same colour. If this reluctance to delegate authority seems petty in a man whose health had now banished him from the country - and we naturally found it extremely frustrating - Uncle Bertie’s methods, as we shall see, ensured that the family continued to exercise a tight control over the London business throughout his lifetime.</q> Dunhill, Mary, Our Family Business (The Bodley Head - Great Britain, 1979).</blockquote>
<blockquote><q>Two male members of the staff took turns to travel to Merano, their bags stuffed with reports, accounts, proposed salary increases and requests that required his signature before they could be implemented. Every week he sent back bags of memorandums and instructions, no detail being too trivial for his critical eye, even the way stamps should be stuck onto office envelopes and the space that should be left between them if they happened not to be of the same colour. If this reluctance to delegate authority seems petty in a man whose health had now banished him from the country - and we naturally found it extremely frustrating - Uncle Bertie’s methods, as we shall see, ensured that the family continued to exercise a tight control over the London business throughout his lifetime.</q> Dunhill, Mary, Our Family Business (The Bodley Head - Great Britain, 1979).</blockquote>