Gonzalez W G
Mich Health Hosp. 2001 Mar-Apr;37(2):22-3.
When Batts Inc., a family business that invented wooden clothes hangers in 1903 was sold to Tyco International, it's ardent competitor, in 1999, nobody bothered to tell its 500 loyal employees in Holland that the plants would be closed, their jobs--perhaps entire careers--ended. And when Lescoa, a family-owned, auto-accessory manufacturing company in west Michigan since 1945, was combined with American Bumper, it's competitor from Ionia, the pledge to "not take the company apart" was communicated. However, that pledge was quickly forgotten as American's executives took over, ignoring the family-styled people-culture of decades past.
1903年发明木制衣架的家族企业巴茨公司（Batts Inc.）在1999年被其强劲对手泰科国际（Tyco International）收购时，竟没人费神告知其在荷兰的500名忠实员工工厂将会关闭，他们的工作——或许是整个职业生涯——就此结束。还有，1945年起就在密歇根西部的家族式汽车配件制造公司莱斯科亚（Lescoa）与来自艾奥尼亚的竞争对手美国保险杠公司（American Bumper）合并时，曾做出“不拆分公司”的承诺。然而，随着美国人的高管接管公司，这一承诺很快被抛诸脑后，他们无视了过去几十年来家族式的企业文化。
