John Elliott’s Business Life – Episode 1 “Henry Jones Takeover”

This week John recalls how in 1972, he formed a consortium and gained their financial backing to initiate the successful takeover of Henry Jones IXL Ltd, the Tasmanian based jam maker. Once he gained control, John started hiring his new Henry Jones senior management team.

In addition to the film recording below, we have been fortunate in obtaining from The Henry Jones Art Hotel history archives some rare photos of Henry Jones in his early jam making days and later in life as Sir Henry Jones (knighted 1919) The other photo shows how the original Henry Jones Hobart jam factory and head office has been successfully restored and retained as world class hotel.

Technology for this recording has been provided by www.motionsuites.com

Next weeks episode covers John’s first visit to Henry Jone’s South African canning operations.

These photos were supplied with the courtesy of the The Henry Jones Art Hotel  Hobart www.thehenryjones.com