•The Beatles used to be customers at Brian's record store before he knew who they were.

•Brian earned £5 per week starting pay at his parent's furniture store. On his first day on the job he sold a £12 dining room table to a woman who wanted a mirror.

•Brian ran the record department of his father's department store. Brian attempted to stock almost any available record. Many went unsold (Coleman).

•Brian entered I. Epstein and Sons as a trainee salesperson.

•Brian would also wager small bets with Alistair Taylor on the chart performance of some singles.

•Patricia Daniels (original Beatle fan fr. Liverpool): Yes, I was about seven and I remember my dad would go to their store to make payments on our furniture, and we'd all be jumping from chair to chair and Mr. Brian used to come out and say, "Kindly remove that child from the furniture, sir. Don't you realize it costs good money?" (Giuliano, Glass Onion, p. 260).

•NEMS opens a new store in Whitechapel, the center of Liverpool's shopping district.

•On his return from the service they opened for Brian his own branch of the family store in Holylake, where he was allowed to sell modern furniture from London and display it with the backs to the window…within a year profits from the store were approaching those of the Walton Street store (Brown p. 61)

•When Brian returned from the RADA he ran the record department on Great Charlotte Street. He, to his parents’ pleasure, turned the record division into a substantial portion of NEMS income (Brown, p. 63).

•Peter Brown: He (Brian) would visit me almost every day in the Lewis record department, trying to lure me across the street to NEMS, while keeping a watchful eye on my merchandising techniques. Finally, he offered me a much higher salary plus a handsome commission to boot if I took the job (p. 63).

•Peter Brown: I had to lie to him (Harry) about my age because he didn’t think 22 was old enough to be a store manager (p. 63).

General Statements:

•It has been said that Brian was more interested in the artistic side of the business where he worked for his parents.
...besides NEMS, the Epstein family had for the last few years controlled several movie theaters in the Merseyside area, including that of the Cozy (Lipack, p. 16).

•Brown, p. 58: Due to easy credit terms, many struggling Liverpool families had a chair or sofa or piano that was at least partly owned by I. Epstein and Sons. By the early 1930’s, when Harry and Queenie were married, the stores expanded to a larger building on Walton Road and incorporated the North End Music Store, which sold sheet music and musical instruments.