Word: hagel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is no Santa Claus." Crowell Collier was folding its two mass-circulation magazines, Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, and dismissing its employees. There was speculation at the time that Crowell Collier would soon follow its magazines down the drain. Instead, says Chairman Raymond C. Hagel, 49, the company has "gone through a whole life cycle in less than a decade." Last week the company announced record profits of $9,292,000 on sales...
Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc., as the firm is now known, currently commands 5.3% of the $561 million textbook market. Chairman Hagel, a veteran of McGraw-Hill and the Scripps-Howard chain, who joined Crowell Collier as a consultant in 1957, next moved into another basic-education marketing area: home study. For $3,194,000 he bought a 96% share of the LaSalle Extension University of Chicago, a correspondence school, expanded its courses, and more than quadrupled sales by 1965. He went on to buy the Free Press of Glencoe, Inc., 111., and Science Materials, Inc.; he also invested in Famous...
...weeks ago, Hagel made another foray into what he describes as the field of "lifetime continuing education." For about $5,000,000, Crowell Collier bought the famed Berlitz Schools of Languages, and Berlitz Publications, Inc. Berlitz, which offers courses in 46 languages, is the innovator of a "total immersion" teaching technique that drowns a student with 13 hours a day of lessons, even at mealtimes. American firms are sending more and more of their men to Berlitz before sending them overseas, and now provide 40% of the firm's business, which last year amounted to a tidy...
...Crowell Collier, which hardly need worry about next Christmas, Hagel predicts more additions to the "continuing education" group...
...seems that Americans live by surveys. From the degree of relief a customer should find in one pill as against another to the exact percentage of people who prefer one political candidate to his rival, a fusillade of figures is daily aimed at the U.S. Last week Raymond C. Hagel, president and chairman of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., told the Washington Society of Investment Analysts just how sound some of those figures can be. In a survey conducted last year, hundreds of New Yorkers were shown a list of magazines and asked to name those they read regularly. Result...