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Show Introduction 7 companies, employs 1,700 people, does a gross busi of $65 million per year, and has an estimated inventory of $25 million. The present name of the business is the Tanner Companies embraces five ness with headquarters in Phoenix. Obert C. Tanner, son of and grandson of Myron and accepted spend to funds, he M. and Annie Clark Tanner, finished Jane, college in 1927, and a position as a seminary teacher at Spanish Fork. Wishing week-ends with his family in Salt Lake and being short of saw an opportunity Joseph to sell class class and thus make graduating the beginning His first of his interest in pins were made pins few dollars to the on high the side. school This was jewelry. the most primitive machines, and would have discouraged all but The author remembers his struggles in the his slow advance towards the most a on success persevering. capital was sorely needed and extremely hard to come by. The O. C. Tanner Company sold its first pins in 1927 with a gross of $4,000. Today the plant is worth $10 million, hires five hundred workmen and grosses thirty-five of whom are salesmen early years when - - $20 million," In the matter of have enterprises, perhaps none of John's descendants near-following in his footsteps as Earl Pingree Tanner, sons. Earl's mother, Annie Pingree Tanner (Karren), come as Sr., and his the divorced wife of Nathan Tanner, Jr., later married Fred Karren O. C. Tanner Factory and Offices Insert: Norman Tanner |
