Along with the moves at the upper level, Ford made a series of appointments involving key manufacturing executives.

James W. Owens is an American economist and manufacturing executive.

David Aronoff, a retired manufacturing executive, became an investor and the third partner in the firm.

"We will get the money back," he assured the manufacturing executives.

After a career as a corporate economist and a manufacturing executive, Mr. Starobin became research director of the union in 1984.

Whether Bywater received pay comparable to male manufacturing executives is not known, but most female factory workers did not.

This group will comprise the manufacturing executives who once ran the supergroups.

Companies, for their part, are looking for more than engineering expertise in recruiting manufacturing executives.

In 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being a "leading oil and manufacturing executive".

Kmart is now so focused on the bottom line that it makes missteps with consumers, a manufacturing executive said.