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1987 Mobil VP Herbert Schmertz speech at Fairfield University

On April 15, 1987 Mobil Vice President, Herbert Schmertz, gave a speech at Fairfield University in Connecticut titled, “Patronage that Pays.” The speech applauds Mobil’s “affinity-of-purpose” marketing strategy, a strategy to “align the company with some worthy endeavor that most of our target audience would happily endorse.” Schmertz describes Mobil’s patronage of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater as […]

1953 Esso Standard Oil Central Refinery Loss Committee Meeting Minutes

Summary The 1953 Esso Standard Oil (Exxon) Central Refinery Loss Committee Meeting Minutes provided an update on the company’s Subcommittee for Fundamental Research on Air and Water Pollution Abatement. The subcommittee was created to for the purpose of developing a program for researching air and water pollution, with the goal of reducing “losses” from pollution, […]