[McMurdo]

I'm sure there was a radio programme on one saturday afternoon about the rise and fall of Ever Ready, maybe a couple of years ago. The co-op sold Ever Ready but our local shop sold Vidor.
The rise and fall of many large companies who seem to have the world in their lap is a mystery to me. Do we have many truly historic national companies left now who haven't already been broken up, 'de-merged', 'asset-realized' or whatever they call it? In our world, I'm thinking about GEC, EMI, Thorn, Rank etc. We are told that multi-national conglomerates are the modern way, after all.