The new value-maximising ici attempted to rearrange its portfolio of businesses , but failed : its share price went into steady decline and a decade later the company was no longer an independent entity .
John kay , a british economist ( and author of a government report on short-termism ) argues that the pursuit of short-term profit may have undermined two of britain 's greatest companies , ici and gec .
Ici global , a trade association for global fund managers , is to open an office in hong kong on may 1 , a reflection of the rapid growth of the asset management industry in asia .
" If you are a producer of bulk chemicals a major slowdown in demand will impact your ability to sustain margins , " says john dawson , spokesman for ici .
A young lecturer at the university of glasgow , black was recruited just after the second world war to be one of the first of ici 's pharmaceutical researchers .
Prof hopper 's recollection of selling a system to ici in runcorn , cheshire , is coloured by the fact that their mark-up was 17 times cost : " we made quite a lot of money on that one deal , " he says .
I 'm one of dozens of people working in the stores at one of ici 's factories , and just a cog in a very big machine .
我是帝国化学公司众多工厂中几十个仓库工作人员之一,因而仅仅是庞大机器中的一个螺丝钉。
Britain s ici , once a sprawling , integrated chemical giant like basf , spun off so many of its divisions that it ended up vanishing altogether as an independent company .