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After 16 years of profit-sharing, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.'s 1,766 workers were used to bonuses. But last week, in the main plant at Fort Madison, Iowa, a notice went up that set men & women dancing among the machines. For the latest quarter, their bonus would total 50% of their pay-by far the biggest in Sheaffer's history, and more than double the previous quarter...
...Eversharp had passed Parker Pen Co. and Sheaffer, and had an ace up its sleeve to grab off the brand new ballpen market. The ace: the North and Central American rights to the Biro patents, for which it had laid out $500,000 (TIME...
Eagle Pencil Co. has just put on sale its "Orbic" for $10, has already sold out all it can produce until well into 1947. Sheaffer is expected to bring out its ball pen shortly. Nobody knows how big the ballpen "market really is. But Eversharp hopes to keep getting the lion's share with its high price policy. Its next model: a $100 pen, plus...
...still the best way to show how you're doing, and the box score in the pen business for the 12 -month period ending Feb. 28, 1946 was: Net Earnings Before Taxes After Taxes Parker $7,3O1,548.72 $2,331,682.99 Eversharp 5,602,444.56 1,805,444.56 Sheaffer 1,606,946.43 847,460.14 Others Unknown but smaller As long as two years ago, our management realized (between naps) that we could make a quick fast bulge in sales and profits by marketing a ball pen. You don't have to be the seventh son of a seventh...
...year pen industry had apparently been caught napping by the new pen, which looked as if it would indeed, as its makers said, revolutionize the industry. Parker and Waterman were working on ball pens, but were not sure when they would put them on the market. The W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. expected to have its ball pen on the market some time next fall...