Word: scoville
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From the outside, the weatherbeaten brick building on Mad River in Waterbury, Conn., looks like one of those venerable edifices in an old New Eng land mill town. Inside, the company that makes its headquarters there has won an entirely different image. Under Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Baldrige, the 166...
A 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 in 1958.
About as bad was the loss in orders. Many exhibitors expected either to write large annual orders at this show or to use the exposition as an entree for future calls. "If a customer sees a model at a show," said Leonard Sandberg, sales vice president for the Libertyville, Ill...
Sacre Cordon Bleu! French Master Chef René Verdon, 41, who steamed out of the White House kitchen complaining about the Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate...
The competition cuts two ways. Last year Connecticut's Scovill Manufacturing Co. (Hamilton Beach products) bought a small Lourdes company that makes coffee grinders, miners' lamps and flashlights, and will now produce a broad line of appliances in France. "The government asked me to take it before the...