Not much new hiring . There also was a suspicion, later confirmed, that they weren t paying an awful lot of attention to their customers. Right, and our customers the independent dealers hated this. Most dealers make their Chairman of Case. By any measure, this is one of the most significant and successful industrial reorganizations of the decade.
Case continues to do well as an independent company.
When we first looked at the whole company Tenneco the first problem we had was Case. Unless we could fix Case, we wouldn t be able to do much with the rest of Tenneco. The initial reaction was not to put a lot of money into Case. We were told, Sorry, you guys fix it first, and then we ll talk. At the time, we really didn t understand how much it would cost.