Word: cuneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall, Stockholder Cuneo sent his own auditors poring through National's books to find out why it made only $332,000 in 1943 on sales of $92,000,000. Last month he fired off a letter to National stockholders giving his findings: bad management, antiquated selling methods and high salaries to National Tea's executives...
Last week Cuneo won his war. John McKinlay, onetime president of Marshall Field & Co., who has run National Tea for the last six years, resigned. As part of the peace treaty, Cuneo won control of National's board of directors. Backed by his print shop millions, he had become a potent new figure in the chain-store field...
Competition Helps. John Cuneo is still little more than a name to retail merchants, is little better known to most Chicagoans. He dodges publicity, keeps the lid on any airing of his business affairs...
Chicago-born Mr. Cuneo went to Yale University, but left after an impatient two years to start in business. With $10,000 given him by his father, he bought up a small bookbinding shop, changed the name to John F. Cuneo Co., which now controls Cuneo Press. He knew little about printing, but plenty about selling...
...chance came shortly after World War I. Sears, Roebuck, which had been printing its own catalogue, got fed up with the job. John Cuneo landed the fat contract. Overnight, it turned his bookbindery into a big business. Cuneo went right on expanding, although he no longer does the bulk of Sears printing...