Information Regarding Oneida Community Ltd.

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Oneida Ltd. - Oneida, N.Y. - 1955

TWILIGHT

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Miles E. Robertson, board chairman of Oneida, Ltd., and of the Associated Industries of New York State, presided at the association’s annual banquet Sept. 22, during the group’s 47th annual meeting at Whiteface Inn on Lake Placid.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - November 1961

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Oneida Ltd. - Oneida, N.Y. - 1958

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The annual meeting of the Oneida Community, Limited, manufacturers of silverware, was held last week, and the following officers elected: C. A. Stringer, T. D. Wilkin and S. W. Moore as directors. Subsequently Mr. Moore was made president, Mr. Wilkin, vice-president and C. A. Stringer secretary.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 12th January 1898

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REFEREE'S REPORT RE ONEIDA SILVERWARE MFG. CO.

SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 1.- Robert J. Fish, as the referee appointed in the matter of the application for the dissolution of the Oneida Silverware Manufacturing Company, Limited, has made his report, showing the condition of the corporation's affairs. It appears that the liabilities amount to $42,451.68, and the assets only $16,231.15. About one-third of the assets are in accounts. In making the application for the dissolution a majority of the directors claimed that the company's liabilities exceeded the assets, but this claim was controverted in the injunction proceedings that were instituted. Attorney H. W. Coley, for the temporary receiver, Charles A. Stringer, on August 25, will make an application in Supreme Court for an order confirming the referee's report, dissolving the corporation, and for the appointment of a permanent receiver. Referee Fish disallowed the claim of Sidney W. Moore, a former president of the company, for $114 salary, and also claims for damages for alleged breach of contract presented by Louis F. Dorflinger, Bruce C. Potter, Harry D. Stanley and James W. Dunning. These claimants were employed in the company's factory, and in resisting their claims an interesting question was raised by the receiver. Because of the suspension of operations in the factory, and the consequent loss of work, the claimants alleged that their contract with the company had been broken. This was met with the contention that the contracts were void, because of being verbal, and for a period of more than a year to commence at some future time, and that when a corporation passed into the hands of a receiver it ceased to be liable for any contracts that remained unfulfilled.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 7th August 1901

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Orville E. Cumings, 70, retired director of Oneida Silversmiths, died July 16. Cumings joined Oneida in 1908 as a salesman, was elected a director in 1924 with the title of director of premium sales, a position he held until his retirement in 1955.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1961

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Karl H. Hatch, 86, associated with Oneida Silversmiths until his retirement about 10 years ago, died July 23. Hatch had represented the Community Plate division in Philadelphia and much of the South.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1961

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Oneida Ltd. - Oneida, N.Y. - 1961

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C. W. Burnham, who has been associated with the Oneida Community, Ltd., has been made general manager of the William A. Rogers plant at Niagara Falls, Ont., succeeding Ralph F. Sage. The Rogers plant was recently acquired by the Oneida concern. Mr. Burnham announces that the business of the Rogers company will be expanded but no change will be made either in the name or the operation of the plant.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th July 1929

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CHICAGO

R. S. Hulbert, manager of the Chicago office of the Oneida Community, Ltd., accompanied by A. J. Ledwith, R. R. Colway, W. H. Farmer, N. P. Mason and E. P. Clark, representatives, returned to Chicago last week from Oneida where they spent a week attending an agents’ meeting.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th July 1929

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CHICAGO

The Oneida Community Road Show closed at the Palmer House last Saturday. The purpose of this display was to introduce their new flatware pattern. A complete showing was made of this line. The display will be made in all of the larger cities in the Middle West. Members of the Chicago office and W. T. Earl of the home offices had charge of the display.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th July 1929

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Roy E. Ecklund has been appointed to the position of assistant credit manager of Oneida Ltd. Silversmiths, Oneida, N. Y. During the past ten years, Ecklund has been a credit analyst for the First National City Bank of New York, and assistant credit manager of the DeLaval Separator Co., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - December 1956

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PHILADELPHIA

The Oneida Community, Ltd., held an attractive display of silverware last week at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. The display, which lasted all week, was in charge of Karl H. Hatch and William Ferguson, the latter manager of the Philadelphia territory for the company. They were assisted by L. A. MacKown, B. H. Crowell and Mr. Winslow. From here it was taken to Baltimore and later goes to Washington, Richmond, and Norfolk. A similar display will be taken to Trenton and eastern Pennsylvania.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th July 1929

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Community to Hold Special Sale For Anniversary of ‘Coronation’

The Community division of Oneida Ltd. Silversmiths will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the popular “Coronation” pattern with an “Opportunity Sale.”

The special promotion is scheduled to run from January 7 to February 9. During the five weeks of the sale, Coronation will be offered in two services at one-half off the open stock prices—a 53-piece service for 8 at $49.85 and a 76-piece service for 12 at $69.95.

In connection with the sale, it has been pointed out by a company official that “this is not a discontinued pattern, but a real opportunity for both the jeweler and the consumer. ‘Coronation’ will return to regular prices on February 10.”

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - December 1956

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P. T. Noyes Elected Executive V.P. of Oneida

The election of Pierrepont T. Noyes as executive vice president of Oneida Ltd. was announced recently by Miles E. Robertson, president. Mr. Noyes was elected to the new post at the November 29 meeting of the board of directors. His new position, which took effect immediately, encompasses the general management of all company operations in the United States and abroad.

Pierrepont T. Noyes is the son of Pierrepont B. and Corinne A. Noyes. His father is the son of the founder of Oneida Ltd. and is still honorary president of the corporation. The younger Mr. Noyes was educated in the public schools of Sherrill, N. Y., at Lawrenceville Academy and graduated from Colgate University in 1936.

From his earliest childhood Mr. Noyes has been associated with the silverware industry. His first jobs were in the various factory departments and offices during school vacation periods. Following his graduation from Colgate in 1936, however, he entered the Oneida Ltd. sales training school. Later in that same year he moved to his first sales territory in the Community Division. His enthusiasm and sales ability soon earned for him progressively more important territories.

In 1941 Mr. Noyes returned to Oneida as assistant to the general manager, but with this country’s entry into the war, he was soon moved to the position of assistant superintendent of defense work. At the war’s end Mr. Noyes returned to the sales department as assistant sales manager of the Community Division. In 1946 he was elected to the board of directors of Oneida Ltd., and in February of 1951 he was appointed assistant general manager. During this same year he became a member of the executive committee.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1955

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Oneida Ltd. - Oneida, N.Y. - 1955

SOUTH SEAS

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SAN FRANCISCO

Ivan L. Smith, Coast manager for the Oneida Community, Ltd., is leaving here on Dec. 27 for the agents’ meeting, to be held at Oneida, N. Y., during the week of Jan. 3. Other members of the Coast organization who will: also travel to the agents’ meeting are: W. C. Agans, San Francisco; L. V. Hepenstall, Seattle; Eugene Smith, Portland, and Raymond T. Reeve, Los Angeles. The San Francisco office will be left in charge of C. Deming Smith and W. L. Wingate.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th December 1928

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Noyes is new president of Oneida Silversmiths

Pierrepont T. Noyes, 46-year-old grandson of the founder of Oneida Silversmiths, was elected president of the firm at a meeting of the board of directors Mar. 31.

He succeeds Miles E. Robertson, who has been president since 1950. Robertson has been with Oneida for 47 years, will continue as chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee.

The new president, who graduated from Colgate University in 1936, has spent his entire business career at Oneida, in production and sales and as an executive. He was elected to the board of directors in 1946, served ultimately as assistant general manager, executive vice-president and general manager. He lives in Kenwood, N. Y., with his wife and two children, is an avid golfer and skiier, likes to hunt and fish.

“Dunc” Robertson, whose name has become synonymous. with Oneida’s, is currently chairman of the executive committee of the Stainless Steel Flatware Manufacturers Association (he was instrumental in obtaining the new federal quotas on stainless steel imports), is also chairman of the board of the Associated Industries of New York State. He is married to the former Constance P. Noyes.

Annual Report

At the stockholders’ meeting on Mar. 31, Robertson reported that Oneida sales in 1959 were considerably better than in 1958. He also said the downward trend of sales of silverplated flatware was stopped, and noted a pickup in sterling and stainless flatware sales.

He noted that 1959 marked the introduction of Oneida Melamine dinnerware, and that in 1959 the firm had begun construction of a new plant in Northern Ireland, which will start producing silverplated and stainless steel flatware by November 1960.

Robertson reported that while the firm’s English subsidiary in Sheffield had done quite well in 1959, its Canadian division had had a “difficult year.”

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - May 1960

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Rhody R. Colway, director of the special sales division of Oneida Silversmiths, has retired after 50 years with the firm. He started as an office boy in 1910, in 1956 was elected to the board of directors and became head of the special sales division.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - May 1960

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Oneida Silversmiths - Oneida, N.Y. - 1960

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