Don ,what portion of this turn around related to the fact that Bourgault was only evolving then and there had been no real competition up until then .
I learned a quote 30 years ago "No business is an island" and too many don't take that to heart.
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I agree, BUT, Flexi Coil pretty much stayed the same for 15 years!!!!!! There were big ideas in that plant, ideas that never saw the light of day.
As is usually the case, it wasn't just one thing.
Yes Bourgault was gaining ground, so were other Canadian manufacturers with some pressure from outside Canada as well.
Flexi-Coil really had nowhere to go but down, when CNH purchased FC they were, by far, the king of especially the air cart hill, market share wise.
I can think of no other company I've worked with that has been as approachable, willing to listen and just seeming to be on the generally same page as I was.
That pretty well instantly died the day CNH took over, people one could phone and talk to about issues or ideas were suddenly cut off, as mentioned above there was bleeding edge technology ready to hit the fields cancelled, shelved, and the people involved with these projects were either let go or quit.
If there was a defining moment for me it was the day I realized, yes, the bean counters are fully in control here when they took the hydraulic cylinder off of the air cart auger. The epitome of stupidity was finally struck and confirmed the trend of cost cutting, piss poor management within the now at that time virtually non-existent R and D department.
Hope you're proud of yourself CNH, with any luck for us end user purchasers the Flexi-Coil experience has been a good lesson and will not result in the same fate with your Miller acquisition.
