He told them that they were to build a single headquarters to house the entire war department, then scattered over 23 sites.
But it is also possible that the departures have distracted top managers' attention from the underlying problems in Chrysler's business.The German dominance in the deal has also led to uncomfortable moments, such as when Mr Hubbert asserted last year that DaimlerChrysler would have a single headquarters in Stuttgart.
In 1976, the government made a strategic change and established the ADF to place the services under a single headquarters.
In essence, the multinational company of the past was a series of national businesses co-ordinated by a single global headquarters.
"Companies keep consolidating and merging and moving out of various medium-to-large offices into a single big headquarters," he said.
"We have a single European headquarters in Luxembourg with hundreds of employees to manage this complex operation".
In a statement to coincide with the committee's report, Amazon said it paid all applicable taxes in every jurisdiction in which it operated: "We have a single European headquarters in Luxembourg with hundreds of employees to manage this complex operation," it said.
Instead of sending French managers to run the four West Coast companies, Alcatel merged them into a single operation run from the headquarters of the largest of the four, the Xylan Corporation, in Calabasas, Calif., by Xylan's chief executive, Steve Kim.
Condé Nast, whose 18 magazines are spread among six buildings, including 4 Times Square, declined to comment, but in a letter to employees on Tuesday morning, it said the move "would allow us to house all our brands in a single, state-of-the-art headquarters".
But with a shift in the region's economy from large, home-grown industries like aerospace to multimedia conglomerates, with a wave of mergers and acquisitions that have left downtown Los Angeles lacking a headquarters of a single Fortune 500 company, and with his own considerable ambition, Mr. Broad has emerged as a virtual committee of one, or, as he puts it, a venture philanthropist.
But it was only last year, when Mr. Manning was appointed to his office, that the consolidation effort began in earnest, as Hanson merged various operations with separate histories, cultures and production methods into a single, streamlined corporate entity, with headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
