Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
DU POINT COMPANY
MAKES CHANGES IN
BUSINESS METHODS
Industrial Departments to be
Conducted as Distinct
Units.
FROM A WAR TO PEACE BASIS

The dupont Company has completed
plans for modifying present methods
OF conducting its various business de-
partments. to meet the requirements
of the diversified interests developed
during recent years.
During the war the du Pont Com
pany added from time to time,
number of enterprises more or less
closely related to its regular line OF
business. Some of these were directly
related to war work and others allied
to its normal business in times OF
peace. While the war continued, the
company perforce devoted most of its
attention TO war business and ii was
only after the close of the war that 1t
was possible to devote fun attention
to the refinements of the new indus
tries, some of which had, in the mean
time. grown considerably
Careful study of its own organiza-
ton and of other large corporations
Indicated that many things which did
we'll under war conditions did not al
ways work so efficiently in times of
peace and the result has been this
modification of methods. The main
purpose of the change is to expedite
the transaction of business while re-
tanning the advantages derived from
the numbers of highly trained techni-
cal men who specialize in different
branches of the company's very COM
plex undertakings.
Unification of Industries.
For sometime past, the executive
organization OF the company has been
such that members of the executive
committee were also heads OF the most
/ important departments. One of the
/ important changes resulting from the
new plan is that certain industrial
branches Of the business which can
be unified, such as the dye industry.
the manufacture of Pyralin, Fabri-
kold. paints and chemicals, and ex-
| plosives. are each put under a general
manager who will be held responsible
for the results of his particular in
dustry. In some eases, the new gem
eral managers were formerly members
of the Executive Committee who have
resigned to take up these new duties
In other cases members OF the new
Executive Committee have been re-
lieved of duties OF this sort in order
that they may devote their whole time
TO the executive conduct Of the busi-
ness as whole.
Those resigning from the executive
committee were Vice-Presidents A
Felix du Pont. J. h. d. Edge, c. A
Patterson and c. A. Meade. Vice
presidents II. f. Brown and #. G. Tall.
man resigned from the finance com.
mittee and are now members of tbs
) executive committee.
President r. r. NJ. Carpentel
. also resigned from the finance com
: mittee TO become general manager o
: the Cellulose Products Department
, with William p. Allen as assistant
The other general managers are C. A
: Patterson, in charge of explosives
!. with A. Felix du Pont and j. Thomp
: son Brown. assistant general mana
1 gers, the former assuming duties Il
5 connection with military explosive
: and the latter with commercial ex
a plosives; Charles A. Meade, in cnarg
S of dyes.uffs and Intermediates, wat
e w. f. Harrington as assistant mana
1 ger; Hunter Grubb in charge c
J, Paints Department. with f. G. Thomp
r son as assistant, and c. w. Phellis |
o charge of the Pyralin Department
: with A. f Porter as assistant.
Six Auxiliary Departments.
a There will be also six auxiliary dc
4 partments which will act in cor
q suIting capacity and perform also sta
il and service functions for the con
q pany as a whole and for the other Ii
q partments as follows: Legal, ].
n Laffey, chief counsel; Development
e Fin Spare, Director Engineering, !
Ie NJ. Pierce, chief engineer; Chemica
II DIR. c. L. Reese. director; Service, '
d p. Foster, director; Advertising. G.
-e Brown, director.
,r According TO information obtair'
d at the company's offices today, the
S, changes will lead to numerous min
changes before the organization ca
RS readjust itself to the new plan, b
IT most of the readjust.ng viii be mere
I'd shifting about of individuals TO e.
Or able them TO carry out their wo
more effectively and efficiently. u
like many reorganizations, the cor
pany states, this one was adopted
the management as the result
Il study and recommendations by {
men themselves and for this reaso
will become effective promptly a.
c. without the friction which often q
ne companies a reorganization origina
ip ing from the outside.