Record of Initial Strategic Planning Meetings on the Asbestos Business (May 2-4, 1979)

Record of initial strategic planning meetings on the Calidria asbestos business held May 2-4, 1979. It covers an industry assessment, a competitive position profile, competitor rankings, key external assumptions, and four generic strategies (hesitation, two market-penetration options, and abandonment). The record appears twice in the exhibit, once as an original and once as a second copy (pages 20-38).

What the document holds

• Page 1: Cover page: Strategic Planning - Asbestos Business, record of initial meetings held May 2, 3, 4, 1979
• Pages 2-19: First copy: industry definition and profile, competitive position profile, key competitive factors, competitor assessment, external assumptions, generic strategies
• Pages 20-38: Second copy of the same record, with a repeated title page (page 20); pages 22-38 repeat the same content with minor OCR differences

People and organizations

• Calidria Asbestos (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California) (named)
• Baker Castor Oil Co (named)
• Cabot (named)
• Cary (named)
• Degussa (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• National Lead (named)
• Wacker (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · Johns-Manville.

About this copy

This is document UC-1479 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 38 pages.