Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Counterattack. Now Ampex is paying the price of success. Its example has stimulated some of its music suppliers to become competitors, drop their contracts with Ampex, and begin making tapes themselves. Their activity adds to already vigorous competition from
...Ampex counterattack is led by Donald V. Hall, 33, vice president of the Chicago-based tape division. He is a mod executive who favors Edwardian suits and splashy ties, partly, he says, as an example to older Ampex executives, whom he is trying to persuade to think "pop." He also has come to admire the music that the young favor, and that helps him in negotiating with some recording stars. "These kids on records are saying something," he explains. "If you are an adult, and you shut them off, then you are not hearing what's going...
...month struggle by Chicago's Northwest Industries to take over the B.F. Goodrich Co. has long since won wide recognition as a classic display of corporate attack and counterattack. The aftermath of Northwest's unsuccessful campaign, which ended last summer, is becoming a textbook case in its own right. Keenly sensitive to Northwest's charges of poor management performance, the Akron rubber company has undergone an extensive purge in its white-collar ranks (TIME, Dec. 26). Now Northwest is beginning to show some managerial fissures...