[Newspaper]
Publication: The Lima News
Lima, OH, United States
vol. 43, p. 4, col. 1
FINDLAY TO BE
OFFICE CITY FOR
PORCELAIN FIRM
One of Six Merged Factories
Will Also Be Operated
There
MILLION DOLLAR DEAL
Ohio and West Virginia Plants
Are Included in New
Company
FINDLAY, July 13 — (Special) Porcelain Products, Inc., is the name of a new firm, the result of a consolidation of six companies with factories located in Ohio and West Virginia, which will make its headquarters in this city.
The new companies capitalization runs into seven figures. Firms involved in the merger are General Porcelain Co., Parkersburg, West Va.; Ravenswood Porcelain Co., Ravenswood, Federal Porcelain Co., Carey; Cincinnati Porcelain Co., Cincinnati, and Findlay Electric Porcelain Co., of this city.
J. E. Bicknell, who for many years has been president of the local plant becomes president of the new organization. Other officers of the new concern are F. E. Owen, vice president, Parkersburg, W. Va.,; John G. Loy, Carey, secretary-treasurer; J. V. Patterson, Findlay, sales manager; and H. A. Eatherton, Findlay, production manager.
Directors are: Bicknell, Findlay; Owen, Parkersburg; R. G. Spencer, Carey; W. S. Rich, Carey; and C. E. Mason, Ravenswood, W. Va.
Offices will be established on West Front St. in this city for the new company within one week. The merger will give Findlay considerable prestige in the porcelain manufacturing industry as the new firm takes rank among the leaders.
The corporation's papers were issued in Delaware. All of the assets of the six companies involved have been purchased by the new company. None of the plants will be moved from their present locations, but will serve their geographical locations as much as possible.