Bulletins for Salesmen
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records / Series 6: Sales and Marketing Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Subseries 6.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains announcements that were created and distributed by the company to keep the sales force informed about sales activities. Some of the earlier bulletins contain quotes by Reuben Hills.  As the primary means of communication from management to the sales force, this body of materials is rather extensive and documents issues, concerns, advertising, sales methods, and pricing structures. Eventually the bulletin system was phased out due to extensive use of telephone and computer communication. The San Francisco division has some of the earliest bulletins. The materials are arranged first in alphabetical order by division or city and then in chronological order.