THE BIG D COMPANY The Big D Company of Dallas, Texas, was a family-owned, conservatively managed company. For over forty years the company enjoyed slow, steady growth in reaching its current employment level of just over 200.
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THE BIG D COMPANY The Big D Company of Dallas, Texas, was a family-owned, conservatively managed company. For over forty years the company enjoyed slow, steady growth in reaching its current employment level of just over 200. All expansions were financed entirely out of earnings. As the company grew, its operating procedures were periodically reexamined and modified to cope with the complex problems that accompany growth. The company developed, manufactured, and sold metering and flow control devices used in the chemical industry. Recently, as a result of declining profits, management was considering the advisability of installing a more formal system for controlling its cost of materials
