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Detroit's Bendix Corp. is probably best known for a product it has never made. Confusing the $742 million science and aerospace company with the makers of the old Bendix washer,* housewives telephone company headquarters asking for repairmen to fix their washing machines. Bendix Corp. makes just about everything else, though, from bicycle brakes to missile-tracking systems. It embraces 373 different product lines, 28 divisions, nine U.S. subsidiaries and 22 affiliated companies in ten countries. Last week the company drew yet another operation under its wing: for $5,300,000 worth of stock, it acquired Besly-Welles Corp...
Competing Within. For all its diversification, Bendix can stand more. The Pentagon's 17th largest prime contractor and an even more important subcontractor (Government business accounts for 64% of its volume), it was hard hit last year by cutbacks in the defense program, saw sales drop to their lowest point in five years. The push for more nongovernment business has been stepped up by a new top management team that took over five months ago. The team: A. P. (for Athanas Paul) Fontaine, 60, the chairman and chief executive officer, and George E. Stoll, 58, president and chief operating...
...Bendix' management faces the constant problem of trying to bring some order out of the company's diversity. Salesmen from separate Bendix divisions with virtually the same product occasionally wind up fighting for the same customer. Two divisions, for example, are competing to sell flight control systems to the major aircraft manufacturers. Bendix maintains that it thus offers a customer alternatives, calls the system "planned internal competition." But it still has to hold regular monthly meetings of division heads to iron out the conflicts...
...computers are hooked up so that if they disagree or malfunction they will automatically cut off, enabling the human pilot to take charge. In the U.S., the only fully automatic landing system certified as airworthy by the Federal Aviation Agency is one developed by Boeing and the Bendix Corp., but it has not yet been used commercially. The British are understandably first. London Airport is fogged in at least a dozen full days each winter, and some days the pea soup is so thick that even a taxiing plane gets lost on the field...
More than a quarter of a million girls annually find jobs through the Brook Street Bureau, lured by its imaginative advertising and reputation for considerate treatment. They are hired by an impressive list of clients, including Philips, Monsanto, Woolworth, Pan American and Bendix, who pay dearly for the services of what Mrs. Hurst characterizes as "the Rolls-Royce of employment agencies." Brook Street carefully tests its girls for professional skills, personality and appearance, accepts only one out of every three it interviews, and refuses to place a shorthand typist unless she has had a minimum of three years' experience...