Posted on 11/13/2004 6:06:53 PM PST by Willie Green
Ambergris is extracted from the gut of the sperm whale; allow me my flights of editorial icense. :>)
I was *so* close.
[too lazy to google]
I'm also throughly grossed out, now...LOL!
How charming.
*gag*....;))
Charming or not...it is what it is. LOL
While hard numbers were hard to come by, since a call placed to New Dana's owner, Philadelphia-based investment firm Dimeling, Schreiber & Park, wasn't returned Friday, the job losses are expected to total at least 200 when accounting for unionized manufacturing workers and office workers.
The New Dana plant in Mountain Top - which made well-known women's and men's fragrances like Chantilly, Canoe and English Leather - employed about 130 union-represented workers that earned from $10 to $14 an hour plus benefits.
The closure was blamed on a failure to reach a manufacturing accord between New Dana and it's sole customer, Coconut Grove, Fla.-based Dana Classic Fragrances.
"In April, when we sent the proposal, they (New Dana) never responded to it," Hillman said. "About a month or two later, they said they would get back in 30 to 60 days." When Dana Classic tried to get a response in August, Hillman claimed New Dana officials responded by saying they wanted to raise prices by 20 percent in the new contract. "The costs they were talking about were astronomical," Hillman said.
Dana Classic and New Dana officials still were talking as of three weeks ago, Hillman said, and Dana Classic responded to those talks by presenting evidence of what other manufacturing plants were charging.
But Alfred Cowger, general counsel for Dana Classic Fragrances, received a fax Friday morning saying New Dana would not be renewing the manufacturing contract.
With snow and rain falling down on him, Cowger said Friday from outside the plant that Dana Classic Fragrances plans to keep its administrative offices in the region but has no where else to turn locally to have its products manufactured.
Asked if his company could take over the manufacturing, he said, "We aren't in the manufacturing business." His company has no plans to shut down. "We will find someone else to fill the product for us." Dana Classic employees 15 to 20 people, he said.
Messages left for the president of the union at the plant were not immediately returned on Friday. A union meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday.
I love absurdity as much as the next amphibian, but to cheerfully drench yourself in embalming fluid seems a bit odd, doncha think?....;)
[Eau de Dr Phibes?]
It's such a wee amount of muck,it's nothing.:-)
I miss Vincent Price something awful.
The guy was -great-.
The Masque of the Red Death is one of my all-time favorite movies and I finally got a copy on DVD.
Talk about bliss and blissiosity!....:))
Absolutely. Our life is much, much easier now than it was when we were younger but there's always that memory of the new love that comes to mind when you smell a familiar scent.
Can you say "gray whale head crud" three times fast?
hahahahaha
You know exactly what I mean, then. ewwwwwwww
They should move to a Red State but most likely... China or India
No...and thanks for making me even try to...my dogs are looking at me funny.....LOL!
You just gave me more information than I have gotten in the last month and I work at the Mountaintop plant. As of Dec. 31st production in Mttop will cease. No severence pay, no accrued vacation pay and our union reps are doing nothing for us. As far as we know, filling of the perfumes will be done in NJ for far less wages.
http://www.longlostperfumes.com
Thanks for the tip. The vintage glamour photos on that site are really a hoot.
I might just have to look into buying some of the products for an aunt...instant nostalgia!
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