Category:Norlin Corporation

See also Wikipedia article: en:Chicago Musical Instruments#History and en:Gibson Guitar Corporation#top.

In 1969, Panama-based conglomerate Ecuadorian Company Limited (E.C.L.) acquired a majority of shares of Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI), and the two companies merged in July of that year.^[1] The new company was renamed to Norlin Corporation (a portmanteau of the names Norton Stevens of ECL and Arnold Berlin of CMI;^[2] Note that Arnold Berlin, Maurice' son, and Norton Stevens were friends and classmates at the Harvard Business School.^[3])

• Kenneth N. Gilpin. "H. Norton Stevens, 65, Executive And Investor in South America[n enterprises]". New York Times (May 20, 1995).
  "..., died on Wednesday in Washington. He was 65 ... / Mr. Stevens headed Norlin, ... the company became the target of a hostile takeover bid in 1984 by Rooney Pace Inc. ... / A graduate of Yale and the Harvard Business School, Mr. Stevens began his business career in 1958, when he joined the Ecuadorian Corporation, an enterprise founded by his grandfather in Guayaquil, Ecuador. / The company expanded into the United States and in 1969, acquired the Chicago Musical Instruments Company, .... At that point, the company was renamed Norlin. ..."

• “Oral History Interviews”, in Library^[1], NAMM Resource Center, (Please provide a date or year)
  • NAMM Oral History Program relating “CMI  [Chicago Musical Instruments]”
  • NAMM Oral History Program relating “Norlin Corporation”