62 | The Fisher Story
1983 Monsanto buys out GEC’s one-third share in
Fisher Controls International.
1984 New 45,000-square-foot electronics technology
center opens in Austin, Texas.
Asia-Pacific headquarters is established in
Goldhill Square, Singapore, to sell products in Japan
and Korea under the title
Fisher Controls South Pacific
Ltd. (Headquarters moved to
Bukit Timah in 1986)
South Pacific sales conference utilizes the theme
“Planned Marketing.” (Pavilion Intercontinental Hotel
in Singapore)
Sales meeting utilizes the
theme “Winner Takes All.”
(Las Vegas, Nevada)
Fisher Service Company operates six repair centers in
North America, led by Wendell Seaman.
North Pacific sales conference. (Sekitei Inn in
Atami City, Shzuoka Prefecture, Japan)
The Fisher team in Latin
America welcomes new sales offices in Colombia,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru.
International ash tray
The Process Leader newsletter
debuts. The quarterly tabloid
is distributed to Fisher sales
personnel worldwide.
Witness to Innovation
DV Series Vortex Flow transmitters,
PROVOX batch-control, Type 8570 Series fire-qualified
control valves, and Type 2390 transmitter
are introduced.
D
ave Taylor, an instrument
products marketing
manager in Europe, retired in
July 2005 after more than 48
years with the Fisher-Medway
organization. He began (1956)
as an apprentice with Elliott Bros
(London) Ltd., located at
Rochester in the United
Kingdom. The site
manufactured Fisher valves (A
and Y bodies, HS, DB, 249) and
instruments (including 4150,
2500, 2516, 3560) under license
and sold them to the world
outside of the Americas.
“Teamwork and respect for
individuals at every level of the
organization made FisherMedway a great place to work,”
he said. “We were proud to have
product leadership and
customers who respected us as
Fisher, No Equal . . . and we all
wanted to keep it that way.”
Three events stand out in
Dave’s memory of a long and
rewarding career.
(1) He led the U.K. sales team
who won the first £1 million
contract (1977) for control
valves. The order came from a
large refinery in Kuwait.
(2) As a PlantWeb marketing
manager for the Fisher valve
division, he served on a crossfunctional team introducing
field-based architecture to
Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
“It is difficult to get riskaverse customers to try new
technology, but we found plants