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From: root@trwatf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: We're Beatrice ...and you're not.
Message-ID: <984@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 08:17:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 08:17:04 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 01:04:09 EDT
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Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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In article <459@ihu1m.UUCP> gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
> Just how much of the world does Beatrice Foods own?  Or did
> they modestly drop the "Foods" in their march to global
> consumer domination?  There I was, watching the tube the other
> day, and I swear, 4 out of every 5 commercials ended with
> that insidious tag, "We're Beatrice."  Once upon a time, lots
> of stuff in the world came from "A Company Called TRW".  But
> you don't hear from them any more.  What happened?  Did
> Beatrice take them over?

Those adds appear all the time, mostly during news programs and
football/ basketball/golf telecasts.  Like me, you probably don't watch
these (well maybe golf).  These ads are neat because they don't push a
product.  They simply convey the IMPRESSION of a high-technology
company, forging the world of tomorrow.  Pretty slick if you ask me.

Truth is, TRW makes truck-parts.

> Before you shrug and say, "Well who cares if Beatrice makes
> everything--that'll make it easier to get parts", note this well:  One
> of Beatrice Foods's earlier acquisitions (must have been before 1970)
> was Morgan Yachts.  As any knowledgeable blue-water sailor (like me)
> can tell you, the old Morgans were well designed, seaworthy boats.  The
> new ones are oversized, underrigged tubs fit only for holding parties.

I can't see the point of large companies getting larger by taking over
little companies.  Soon there will be just one big company with lots of
little corporate divisions that will have to be split up just like AT&T.
How stupid!

> So stuff that in your smoke and pipe it!

Oh no!  My pipe says "We're Beatrice" on it.
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