So Bob wants to be treated like Ford's other vendors? what's the problem?
I worked for an advertising agency from 1989 thru 1992 which about 90% or
more of our business was Ford. They dictated all the terms of time and money
on the projects, told us if we pursued other clients then they would yank
all their business from us. When they told us to jump, we asked "how high?"
They had outrageous demands and wanted everything free. Work was up and
billing was down. Any new business other than Ford's had to be under the
radar. Every year 5 or 6 people would be laid off and I was laid off after 3
years. Less then 2 years later the company went out of business, hard to pay
those bills when you are constantly being squeezed into slave labor (every
year billing needed to be reduced 10-15%). The agency was doing well until
they teamed up with Ford and let all their other clients go (bigger isn't
always better).
As far as the little guy getting hurt? The 2 owners of the agency found a
sucker and jumped out before the business crashed the ground (retired nicely
from what I heard), the only people hurt were the new owner, his investors
and the 30+ people out of jobs in the end (it took me 9 months to find
another full-time job).
Finally, my dad just retired from Visteon (and 30+ years with Ford)...and
that's a whole nother can of worms...of a company destined to fail. I had to
hear 2 hours on the subject last week from my dad.
Paul
>From: DJoh797014@aol.com
>Reply-To: DJoh797014@aol.com
>To: gswaybright@yahoo.com, tigers@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Trademark of Sunbeam & GT40 brand license
>Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 23:28:28 EDT
>
>Thanks for filling in the info on licensing.
>
>What Bob is saying is that he wants to be treated like Ford
>treats others. At his talk, he said over and over, he is open
>to negotiation. Not the take it leave it attitude of Ford lawyers.
>But he still would like the free VIP auto show tickets...
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