Growth Company: Dow Chemicals First Century

East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1997. 1st Ed 1st Pr. Hardbound. 8vo. 80 Pgs.. Fine in VG DJ/Very Good. Growth Company: Dow Chemicals First Century by E N Brandt. Published by Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in VG DJ. 649 Pgs. ISBN 0870134264. LCCN 97-749. This is the story of a century of industrial drama told by an insider who has been associated with the firm and its top managers since 1953. Written in celebration of the firm's 100th anniversary, it traces the rise of an archetypical growth company from its unlikely beginnings in a dying lumber town in the backwoods of central Michigan. Later a Wall Street favorite, it made many of its early investors wealthy; it has not missed or decreased a dividend since 1911. Based on research in the Dow corporate archives, supplemented by oral history interviews with more than 150 company pioneers, this colorful panorama of growth is told in terms of the people who built this unique and spectacularly successful world-class company, beginning with Herbert H. Dow, the young genius who founded the firm, down to the son of Greek immigrants who heads the company today. Description text copyright 2017 BooksForComfort. Item ID 32326.