In 1971, Boots launched its Lady Gay perfume in South Africa with a dazzling beauty competition, celebrating African beauty and marking the company’s entry into a growing and modern African consumer market.
Frederick Harrison was itching for an adventure when he set sail from Liverpool in February 1941 to join Boots’ export and wholesale business in Calcutta [Kolkata], India. He chronicled his first year with the Kolkata office in his 1993 posthumously…