Word: allyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Says Allyn: "We consistently invest part of our profits in the countries where they are earned. You meet the responsibilities of foreign operations as well as reaping the benefits...
...Allyn built new factories at Augsburg and Berlin, put up others in Scotland, Sweden, France, Brazil, Japan. Then came the new products: registers and calculators of every description. N.C.R. developed an automated electronic bookkeeping system for banks, added sales of $70 million in the first two years the system was on the market...
...experience. The boss liked everyone to be on the job at 6:30 a.m., insisted that executives wear vests and join him in his food fads (he once heard that Bulgarians lived long because they ate garlic, had plates of the buds served at every lunch). Young Allyn survived it all, and at 27, he was comptroller and the youngest member of N.C.R.'s board...
...Allyn had been well trained to take over the top job. In 25 years at N.C.R., he saw sales doubled to $40 million. As boss, Allyn has multiplied them another tenfold. During the war, he took N.C.R. into defense work, but made sure he would be ready for the worldwide boom he saw ahead. With peace, Allyn hurried to Germany to check on N.C.R.'s Berlin plant. It was gone. "The Russians had rolled up our plant like a rug and hauled it behind the Iron Curtain," says Allyn...
...Allyn hopes to push his new products overseas to help foreign retailers, knows that the cost comes back many times...