Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management from the mistakes of U.S. multinationals. "Americans tended to look at Europe as a single market, but that is an oversimplification," he says. "When it comes to food, every market has totally different tastes." He tells French cheesemakers to forget about trying to sell their Camembert and Pont-l'Evêque in Britain, and learn how to make the Cheddars and Stiltons favored by British palates. Goldsmith also avoids what he sees as the pitfall of American-style conglomeration by keeping the bulk of his expansion in the food business. Lately he has been adding...
...fact, Colas's provisions for the trip included a variety of French delicacies; farmers from his native Normandy provided Camembert, Pont l'Evêque and Livarot cheeses, pâté, tripe à la mode de Caen and a supply of Calvados. Even so, the voyage was no pleasure cruise. Pen Duick's living quarters are so cramped that even 5-ft. 6-in. Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope...
...assistant to the general manager of NSC: "I don't think you will see any significant payoff in terms of injuries prevented. A good safety program goes far beyond the law's requirements." Such sound programs are already in force at some companies, including Aerojet General, Du Pont, General Dynamics, Boeing, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Westinghouse and Firestone. Other employers could wisely copy from them. Unless many more do so and unless the Federal Government gets tougher, the toll of lives from on-the-job accidents is apt to rise even higher...
...transportation-equipment industry-indeed, 90% of all Canadian plants that employ 5,000 or more workers. Many a Canadian suburbanite begins his day by brushing his teeth with Crest, grabbing a cup of Maxwell House instant coffee, hopping into a Mustang and heading for work at, say, Du Pont of Canada...
Merrill Lynch's new prominence in investment banking lends substantial clout to a firm that already had resources far beyond those of its closest competitors, Bache & Co. and Du Pont, Glore Forgan & Co. In 1970, for example, when many brokerage houses were barely treading water, Merrill Lynch posted earnings of $40.7 million; what it lost on its sluggish stock business it more than made up in other operations like the trading of commodities and Government bonds. When the final figures are in, its performance for last year will be even more spectacular. In the first nine months, its earnings...