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After early pandemic layoffs, CT giant Stanley Black & Decker adding jobs amid DIY boom
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It’s the tried-and-true maxim for the do-it-yourself enthusiast “measure twice, cut once.”
But the CEO of Connecticut tool giant Stanley Black & Decker suggested he may have erred in cutting too many jobs in haste last year after his initial read of the pandemic economy failed to anticipate a surprise boom in purchases by people stuck at home.
After making permanent 1,000 job cuts last year and putting an unspecified number of temporary workers and external contractors on hiatus, Stanley Black & Decker now lists 800 job openings in the United States.
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Cerevel Therapeutics Announces the Appointments of Deval Patrick and Deborah Baron to its Board .
Cerevel TherapeuticsJanuary 21, 2021 GMT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Cerevel Therapeutics, a company dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the brain to treat neuroscience diseases, announced today that it has appointed the Honorable Deval Patrick and Deborah Baron to serve as independent members of its Board of Directors.
Mr. Patrick, a former two-term governor of Massachusetts, is an experienced business and government leader with a deep understanding of the life sciences ecosystem. He currently serves as a director at Global Blood Therapeutics, Amwell, Twilio, and Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. He is also the founder and chairperson of the TogetherFund, a political action committee that supports progressive politics and grassroots groups working to dr
David Carter (left) in the offices of his company, David Carter Associates, around 1970
Along with Sellotape, Biro pens and the Anglepoise lamp, the workaday Stanley knife is one of those familiar products the names of which have been bestowed on any number of competitors over many decades.
In 1960, David Carter, who has died aged 92, designed the definitive Stanley knife. It was, along with other workaday tools for Stanley Works, one of the main reasons why this skilled industrial designer was able to set up his own company, David Carter Associates (DCA), in 1963. More than simply useful, the easily affordable and indestructible knife works as a natural extension of the hand when cutting materials. Like the multipurpose Swiss army knife, it also looks good at rest on a desk or workbench. There have been several iterations of the Stanley knife since Carter’s, yet his has never been bettered.
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