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...boss of Chicago's fast-growing Hotpoint, Inc. likes nothing better than to grab a sale away from giant General Electric Co. What gives James J. Nance the kick is the fact that G.E. owns Hotpoint lock, stock and dishwasher. But nobody would ever know this to watch Hotpoint's Jim Nance. He is responsible to G.E., but he operates Hotpoint as if he bossed an independent company. He has his own board of directors, runs his own sales and engineering staff, maps his own strategy...
...likes the rivalry; it gives buyers a greater "choice" of products, permits Hotpoint to reach dealers who would be excluded by G.E.'s existing franchises. Hotpoint's competition also keeps G.E.'s own salesmen and production staff on their toes. The competition is even stiffer than G.E. bargained for. In Nance's four years as president, he has pushed Hotpoint from a relatively minor place to a spot among the big electric appliance manufacturers, boosted its yearly sales from $20 million to an estimated $200 million...
From Chicago, Hotpoint Inc.'s Harold A. Berry reported: "Midwest business looks good throughout 1950 with signs pointing for its continuance into...
Labeled the "Edison Hotpoint" system, the newly-installed tables are entirely electrically operated and do not require the extensive plumbing that would go with a permanent steam setup. The temporary tables, put out four years ago when the dining halls first began to follow the G.I. practice, used portable, electric heaters with water-filled pans to give a steam-heated product...
...OPAster Bowles got help from an unexpected source - dynamic, jut-jawed Ray Wright Turnbull, president of Edison General Electric Appliance Co. (Hotpoint ranges and heaters). In a cheerful statement. President Turnbull approved the new ceiling. Said he: "The company is willing to take its chances on this loss because it feels that within a short time the increased volume of domestic and foreign sales will more than offset the low selling prices and high production costs...