Oral history interview with Raymond G. Fisher 1975
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- Name
- Fisher, Raymond G (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Raymond G. Fisher 1975
- Abstract
- Early government statistical programs; Washington during New Deal; War Production Board allocation work; postwar rebuilding efforts in Berlin; strength of Continental's European subsidiaries; German vs. English social and economic structure; work for Rockefellers; Eisenhower campaign; General Clay's business philosophy, effects on Continental; steel strike, 1950s, move to packaging, 1950s mergers; success of Mills process in plastics markets; competition with American Can; acquisition and reorganization of Shellman plants; history of Diversified Products Group, coordination problems, sales; trends in can business over last twenty years; White Cap operations; product life cycles, profitability; production, distribution, profit problems of Bondware; Tee-pak, Crest cups; paper-plastic competition; international operations since the 1960s; coordination of European manufacturing and marketing programs; obsolescence of European licensee arrangements; worldwide expansion into economic developing areas, especially Brazil; foreign woodland resources; Russian business cooperation, association; future developmental possibilities in China, Indonesia.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Executives; International business enterprises; Consolidation and merger of corporations; Presidents--Election--1952.--United States; Container industry; Paper containers; Fisher, Raymond G; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Executive.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on May 8th, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- Raymond G. Fisher, Gift 1976
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13537934
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-f5hn-yz73
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.