Sugosa

Sugosa

Sugosa was a small Czechoslovak-owned company formed as a sugar dealing company by a Mrs Marie Bernkoff. In 1956 David Mitchell was asked to establish a Sugosa office in London and to organise all sales and marketing of their confectionery products for the U.K. market. The London office designed the sweets – product, wrapping etc. and the products were made in a factory in Slovakia. The confectionery was distributed to the retail trades and supermarkets. The company occupied a suite of offices in Marlon House, Mark Lane, London which is adjacent to Fenchurch Street Railway Station. In the 1960s there were six employees at Sugosa: David Mitchell (Managing Director), Stewart Gibson, Vance Pennington, Bob Warrior and two secretaries/typists/phone operators. David Mitchell and Vance Pennington have both personally assisted greatly with the information on this page, for which thanks are due and given. David Mitchell, now aged in his eighties, has had his memoirs published in a two volume work entitled ‘A Boy from Nowhere’.