>>>>>>Yes I did. Thanks for reminding me. I guess I could've just posted a link to that message and saved the typing... :o)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>A few years ago I got a job offer with a well-known manufacturing firm. I won't give the name except to refer to them here-out as 'B&D' :o)
>>>>>
>>>>>Now seeing this, and vaguely remembering the drive through the area... are these guys indirectly related to Tore? :)
>>>>
>>>>Hmmm,
>>>>
>>>>not sure how that would work out. Bleken is bleach or whitening...opposites?
>>>
>>>Not Tore himself... his distant cousin Dekker.
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>>Well yes, they are related :o)
>
>Well, then, any particular reason why you wouldn't say it was Black & Decker? Whitemail? Pinkmail?

There's a line in here on why the city got so upset with B&D:

http://www2.nccommerce.com/eclipsfiles/15026.pdf

Bill Martin, president of the Cumberland County Business Council, said his staff met with Black & Decker executives
the week before they announced the closing.

The meeting was one of many regular checks the Business Council makes with companies in the area. He said there
was no indication that anything was wrong.

“Within our organization, we were stunned,” Martin said. Afterward, he called plant managers to see what could be
done to salvage jobs. The response: nothing.

And where the jobs went to:

http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/04/11/daily19.html