Swiss Colony Seminars Plan 1973 Christmas Season
More than 100 Swiss Colony store owners and managers from across the United States convened at the Abbey on Lake Geneva for a three day event themed Were Everybody's Santa. Mary Hopkins Alice in Dairyland awarded noon luncheon honors. Raymond R Kubly opened with remarks and Bob Linder spoke on Professional Selling. The agenda covered Christmas planning gift packs new items and vendor meetings. Recreation included a Western Style Cookout and a Hawaiian Luau with transport by chartered bus from O'Hare Field to Fontana.
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Hawaii
Alaska
Lake Geneva
Mary Hopkins
Cumberland
Wisconsin
Raymond R
Pat) Kubly
Swiss Colony Stores, Inc
Bob Linder
Training Dynamics
Glen Ellyn
Micky Houston
Houston Foods Inc
Chicago
O'Hare Field
Fontana
Swiss Colony Stores Inc
Alice In Dairyland
James N. Liermann
Corporation
Liermann
Monroe
Ralph Brown
Swiss Colony
Brown
Pamida Stock Gift Funds Employee Profit Sharing Plan
D. J. Witherspoon, Pamida chairman, personal transfers 141,500 Pamida shares to the employee profit sharing trust in a $1,000,000 contribution. He notes it does not change Pamida’s total outstanding shares and calls the move unprecedented. The afternoon dispatch also notes Wisconsin merger talks involving Gimbel Brothers into Brown & Williamson and related stock plans.
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D. J. Witherspoon
Pamida, Inc
Gibson Discount Centers
Pamida
Witherspoon
Gimbel’s
Wisconsin
Brown & Williamson
Gimbels
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