On his return in 1946 it was back to the export department.
He was soon promoted to head the company's export department, where he learnt to be tough.
At the institute in Mainz, Mr. Adams directed the export department, which is responsible for the multimillion-dollar international promotion program.
"That's why we're switching to higher-value-added products," said Stephen Huo, the general manager of its export department.
By that time, the export department of a giant perfume company in the 8th arrondissement could well seem a very long way away.
In Coty's export department, she found herself stepping into the elegant shoes of the marketing manager, who was away on maternity leave.
Ma Zhongmei, an official at the export department of the North China Air Transportation Company in Beijing, said about one-third of her company's customers packed goods in raw wood.
Once out of college, he took a succession of engineering jobs before joining Hewitt Robins International, a maker of conveyor belting and industrial hose, as a sales engineer in the export department.
David Chen, the export department manager of Ningbo Jiekelong Valves Manufacturing near Shanghai, a large producer of copper valves and tubing, said that long order backlogs had disappeared in recent months.
There were more than 400 employees inside at the time, but only two were killed: William A. Joyce, filling in for another employee on the Wall Street side, and John A. Donohue, who worked in the foreign export department, who died later.
