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...maker of metal products, from 3,300-lb. brass ingots to casings for Cha nel No. 5 perfume, Scovill drifted downhill for years. The firm lost $131,-000 on sales of $121 million...
Baldrige's austere and highly indi vidualistic management has raised Sco vill's sales to 1966's record of $388 million and its earnings to $15 million...
Last year reduced consumer spending and the consequences of stockpiling in expectation of a long copper strike caused sales to dip to $352 million and earnings to $13 million. But Baldrige expects 1968 sales and earnings to be every bit as good...
Dayton's has been an aggressive outfit since its establishment in 1902 by Minneapolis Banker George Draper Dayton. He lured shoppers with slickly conceived newspaper ads and free food, thought nothing of hiring an airplane to deluge the Minnesota State Fairgrounds with a million blue feathers inscribed with Dayton's name. By the time the store came under control of third-generation family members in 1950 (the elder Dayton died in 1938), it accounted for 16% of all furniture and apparel sales in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. That would have satisfied most merchants...
...Diamond department stores in Phoenix, Ariz., and the four-store Lipman chain in Oregon. Long committed to the "whole pie" theory of retailing, which emphasizes bargain-basement as well as high-fashion merchandise, the company is also expanding its six-year-old chain of Target discount stores, a $100 million-a-year operation that has outlets in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. The most impressive growth has come in book retailing, notably the cluster of B. Dalton bookshops that Dayton's has opened in the Middle West and West in the past two years. This month the company strengthened this...