Legacy

In the early 1800s, Lehmann Gluckstein and his family escaped Eastern Europe and made their way to London’s East End. There, starting with nothing, they worked tirelessly to create a small tobacco factory that grew to become the largest catering company in the world: J Lyons. It was an ascent from rags to riches in the face of many obstacles: poverty, hatred and anti-Semitism stood between this poor immigrant family and the British Dream.