wholesaling

After the public sector, the wholesaling, retailing, hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate.

"Services grew a little, with wholesaling, pubs and restaurants and IT companies all doing well, partially offset by falls in accountancy and business rental & leasing," she added.

By the 1930s, the Mayers had expanded into jewelry wholesaling and made more than 100 street clocks for customers in multiple states, said Mendez.

Born in 1852, Bruun began to collect coins as a boy in the 1850s and ’60s, years before he began to amass vast riches in the packing and wholesaling of butter.

Still, redevelopment pressures, driven by manufacturing and wholesaling interests and ultimately high-end development on the outskirts of the area, never went away.