Industrial Management: Volume 72 Issue 1
Table of contents
Too much lip and not enough service
BRITISH INDUSTRY still suffers from too little entrepreneurial marketing and from too much novice marketing and non‐marketing. The gaps in companies' performance—both in domestic…
Steelmen fall out over Euro‐plant
The British Steel Corporation, desperately trying to get beneath its estimated £100 million loss for this financial year, is likely to press for a swingeing price rise when the…
Right to reply
The October edition of Industrial Management featured the Nader‐style ‘consumerism’ building up in Britain with pressure groups harassing companies over the pollution issue. In…
Engineering unions poised for ‘guerilla warfare’
The sheer strength of almost a million engineers is proving to be the deadweight around the neck of the AUEW. For it is now obvious that it could not finance a national strike in…
MAKING THE PRODUCT FIT THE CAN
No‐one can accuse Metal Box of waiting on events. Instead of letting the packaging market expand on its own, it simply initiates a new product for a food firm to put in its tins…
Clearing banks edge into the corporate field
Spurred on by far greater competition, Britain's bankers are signalling their intention to step into previously‐untrodden fields, in direct conflict with merchant banks and even…
PR seeks boardroom status
PUBLIC RELATION IS STILL clouded in mystique in the eyes of many managements—a concept they do not understand fully and which therefore frightens or baffles them to varying…
UK firms win easier credit for Egypt
Encouraged by Egypt's steady repayment of a £13 milliondebt Britain has responded by lifting short‐term credit restrictions. Preston Witts reports on how this will benefit…
Paying on impulse
Sometime this winter, regular customers at Reading Garage—one of the biggest in Southern England—will be able to get their petrol tanks filled quicker and save 4p in the pound in…
Kiss‐me‐quick foods
‘Full‐Time Profits, Part‐Time Efforts’, ‘Follow the rainbow path to financial success’, ‘No experience necessary’, ‘Tired of Being Bossed Around?’—So read the advertise‐ments for…
New King Coal
Derek Ezra, Lord Robens' NCB successor does his work in two parts, from Monday to Friday and at weekends. Such job dedication leaves little time for his outside interest—history…