Industrial Management: Volume 73 Issue 4
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Forgive us for bending your ear, but…
The Channel Tunnel Green Paper published on March 21 served merely to confirm what was already known to readers of Industrial Management. In our last issue, published on March 7…
Suppliers beware
The same Government that abolished the Consumer Council is bringing in some of the toughest legislation ever on buyer protection under the Fair Trading Bill. Ewan Mitchell points…
Jessel has a rethink on takeover tactics
Maurice BarnfatherBecause of what he sees as a marked change in the takeover climate, financier Oliver Jessel believes that the days of fiercely contested bids are over. Jessel also has some…
Trade deficit will force a ‘claw‐back’ budget, says Healy
Paul NovakANOTHER BUDGET WILL be unveiled by the Chancellor in July or October. And it will be so severe in its impact that the general election will be deferred until the spring of 1975.
Ozalid's global bid for higher states
Ozalid's recent success in getting a majority share in its Australian licensee‐through which it can make a back‐door attack on the lucrative Japanese reprographic market‐is one…
AQUANAUTS TAKE THE FREIGHT STRAIN
With juggernauts under persistent attack from environment‐conscious transport planners, the British Waterways Board has picked an opportune time for stepping up its campaign to…
Slackness in the safety net
Accidents and disease continue to account for more lost working days in British industry than strikes‐yet the attitude from both management and workers tends to be one of…
PROMOTION: All on a day's work
The days when a man's promotion prospects hinged on the say‐so of his boss may soon be over. A new management selection technique — imported from the US and already being tried…
Stereo sight
Michael WrightTalking about electronic microscopes tends to conjure up mental images of grey‐haired professors in white coats grubbing away in their chaotic laboratories, far from the everyday…
The downward pound lifts the car makers' gloom
The rare combination of promising home market prospects and an upturn in exports — aided by the downward float of the pound — is giving British car manufacturers cause for renewed…
Marking down the Wall Street status
With the near certainty of tougher legislation governing the securities business, and mounting competition from ‘off‐board’ trading, the New York Stock Exchange is struggling to…
Distillers could be hit by ban on trading pacts
Colin O'DwyerANYONE WHO DOUBTED the European Commission's serious intention with its anti‐trust policy will now realise that Director‐General Willy Schlieder and his Competition Department…