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The Enforced Strategy for Creating Change: Petrochemicals Division

Early in 1971 ICI announced one of their periodic reorganisations involving a reshuffling of business areas and redrawing and relabelling of divisional boundaries. Nobel's Explosives Company Ltd was formed to take over and operate the explose assets of Nobel Division. ICI Fibres Ltd was reconstituted as a division. Dyestuffs Division combined with parts of Nobel Division to become Organics Division, and Heavy Organic Chemicals Division acquired parts of the old fibres and dyestuffs operations and was renamed Petrochemicals Division. To many of the managers who had left the old Billingham Division in 1958 to form Heavy Organic Chemicals Division (HOC), who were part ...

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