Ford August sales slump seen, local dealers upbeat on trucks
Ford Motor Co reported weaker nationwide sales in August 1996 versus 1995, though local dealers noted stronger performance from trucks and vans. The Econoline and Villager, built in Lorain, outpaced two Lorain cars the Thunderbird and Cougar, with the Econoline down 38 percent year over year and the Villager dipping about 12 percent. Dealers credited strong truck demand and upcoming 1997 Econoline as exciting, while noting overall local sales were up about 18 percent since February.
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Sheffield
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Lorain
Ohio
Jim Herrick
Liberty Ford
Herrick
Bass
Joel Pitcoff
Political Macarena Cards From American Greetings Rise
In Cleveland, American Greetings rushes election cards featuring Al Gore and Bill Clinton in a Macarena styled scene. The front shows Clinton and Gore with grim faces while inside they dance as the presidents quip about bridging to the 21st century.
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Cleveland
Mark Stringer
Stringer
American Greetings Corp
al Gore
Gore
American Greetings
Clinton
Bill
Jeff Weiss
Dow Corning to launch $8 million claim filing campaign
Dow Corning Corp. will start an $8 million global advertising drive to inform women with breast implants about new deadlines for filing claims. The forms, required of all claimants including those already involved in lawsuits, aid the company’s bankruptcy proceedings as ordered by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Spec tor in Bay City.
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Dow
Detroit
Dow Corning Corp
U.S
Arthur J. Spector
Bay City
Kidron Livestock consignments at Thursday auction results
The Kidron Auction catalog lists 2388 head from 421 consignors across cattle hogs and sheep. Hog lots range 8.50 to 49.50 per hundredweight by weight, calves 26 to 560, dairy cows 1 175 and down, goats 10 to 590, with hay and feed prices noted including first to third cuttings and ear corn at various per ton and per bale rates.
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Kidron
Campbell Soup restructures with Erasco buy and job cuts
Campbell Soup announces a 160 million restructuring charge and 210 million cash and stock acquisition of Erasco, plus 2.5 billion in buybacks and 500 million in divestitures. Q4 profits rise to 180 million, full year to 802 million as 650 jobs are cut in North America, including 175 at Camden NJ.
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New York
Campbell Soup
Erasco
Germany
Noncore
Godiva
Japan
Pace Foods
Britain
Grand Metropolitan
U.S
Europe
North America
Camden, NJ
Lakeland
Fla
Atlanta
Campbell Soup plant to keep producing in Napoleon
Campbell Soup Co will continue soup and vegetable juice production at its Napoleon plant opened in 1957, but 70 white collar workers will lose their jobs as costs are cut. The facility employs about 2,300 and is the county’s largest employer, though workers fear further layoffs if other Campbell lines are moved. Eric Cline voices concern over finding similar pay locally.
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Napoleon
Campbell Soup Co
Campbell
Kevin Lowery
Eric Cline
Opening Stocks at Loran County Grain Market
Local grain traders closed yesterday with wheat at 406 dollars per bushel, shelled corn at 3.67, oats at 250, and soybeans at 788 per bushel, as reported by the Loran County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association.
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Loran County Farm Bureau Cooperative Associaten Inc
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PNC. Com
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