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Article: WILSON FOODS EMPLOYEES TRYING TO HALT TAKEOVER
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 8, 1988
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A group of Wilson Foods Corp. employees in Oklahoma City have started
a campaign to block the proposed takeover of the company by Doskocil
Companies Inc. of South Hutchinson, Kan.
About 2,700 Wilson retirees and 5,000 employees nationwide have
been asked by the group to buy Wilson stock, according to Bob Brown,
a commodity analyst for Wilson in Oklahoma City and one of the
leaders of the campaign.
The effort started Friday, Brown said, when a group of Wilson
employees in Oklahoma City met to discuss the proposed takeover by
Doskocil.
"We decided that it was time to do something for ourselves,"
Brown said. "Our prime objective is to block the takeover."
The effort has to be done ...