Monday, Apr. 26, 1971
Manhattan's Dropouts
Since the beginning of 1967, these large companies have moved their headquarters out of Manhattan:
Company
American Can
Avco
BASF Bangor (U.S. Punta Division)
Columbia Gas System
CPC (Corn Products)
Flintkote
Foster Wheeler
Hooker Chemical
Howmet
CI America
Lone Star Cement
Lummus
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Microdot
Olin
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line
PepsiCo
States Marine International
Union Camp
U.S. Tobacco
1970 Sales (in millions)
$ 1,838
758
342
56
823
1,376
355
391
N.A*
250
67
N.A.
265
192
171
155
1,125
419
N.A.
123
462
86
New Location
Greenwich, Conn.
Greenwich
Greenwich
Parsippany, N.J.
Wilmington, Del.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
White Plains, N.Y.
Livingston, N.J.
Stamford, Conn.
Greenwich
Stamford
Houston, Texas
Greenwich
Bloomfield, N.J.
Culver City, Calif.
Greenwich
Stamford
Houston
Purchase, N.Y.
Stamford
Wayne, N.J.
Greenwich
The following major corporations are in the process of moving their headquarters out of Manhattan:
Company
AMF
Chesebrough-Pond's
Combustion Engineering
Continental Oil
Sen Tel & EI
Great Northern Paper
Ingersoll-Rand
Kraftco
Richardson-Merrell
Shell Oil
Stauffer Chemical
1970 Sales (in millions)
5,636 261 957
2,964
3,439 355 766 737 381
4,299 483
Destination
White Plains
Greenwich
Stamford
Stamford
Stamford
Stamford
Woodcliff Lake, N.J.
Chicago
Southern Connection
Houston
Westport, Conn.
* Figure not available.
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