Maximizing Profits Immediately: How to Dramatically Improve Your Company's Bottom Line

"Maximizing Profits: How to Dramatically Improve Your Company's Bottom Line" shows managers of small and midsize manufacturing companies how to implement common sense and proven techniques to set realistic goals and achieve immediate, outstanding, measurable results. It pulls away the curtain to reveal that the building blocks of the latest profit improvement strategies can be found in the tried and true techniques that people like Harry E. Figgie Jr., and now the book's other two authors, have implemented so successfully for more than half a century.

Matthew P. Figgie is Chairman of the Clark-Reliance Corporation. For many years he was the company's Vice President of Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Investments. He is also President and CEO of Figgie Capital, a diversified investment company. He previously was Director of Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Investments at the public company, Figgie International. An Ohio resident, Matthew Figgie received his B.S. from ¬the McIntire School of Business at ¬the University of Virginia and his B.A. from Baldwin Wallace College. He has an MBA from ¬the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. As Chairman of Clark-Reliance, Mr. Figgie is continuing his father's strategy of internal growth through product expansion and the profit improvement strategies described in this book, and through strategic external growth centered on the senior Figgie's nucleus theory.

Richard A. Solon has more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing and operations. Hired and trained by Harry E. Figgie Jr. in 1975 Mr. Solon was enrolled in the first management training program at Figgie International, where for four years he rotated among various divisions, being exposed to almost every business discipline. That is also when he first began to study modern management theories and techniques and recognized how in many cases they seemed to be spun off of the principles and techniques espoused in Mr. Figgie's Cutting Costs guide, first published in 1983. In the various stops during his business career Mr. Solon has repeatedly and successfully used the profit improvement methods discussed in Maximizing Profits Immediately. After spending the first 24 years of his career at Figgie International, Mr. Solon was for three years President and CEO of Orion Bus, a DaimlerChrysler company, before rejoining the Figgie family as President and CEO of the Clark-Reliance Corporation.

Adam C. Snyder, a freelance business writer, worked with Harry E. Figgie Jr. on a number of writing projects, including Building a Billion Dollar Company From Scratch and Cutting Costs: An Executive's Guide to Increased Profits. Mr. Snyder has also collaborated, co-authored, or ghost written many other business books with top CEOs and business leaders. He is also president of the animation company, Rembrandt Films LLC. For more information about him and his company, visit www.rembrandtfilms.com.