3M Company, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.;

              Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
This summer if a golfer comes upon
his elusive golf ball in a sand trap and
suddenly sees red, he can thank (or
curse) the ingenious 3M Company of
Saint Paul, Minnesota, for it. Actually,
the colorful red and blue "sand" now
appearing in golf traps is made up of
millions of tiny ceramic coated granules
produced by the 3M Company. This
versatile H&S client started 67 years
ago mining rock for the abrasives in­dustry;
now it makes golf trap granules
as an offshoot of its manufacture of
roofing materials.
A Haskins & Sells client since 1927,
the Minnesota Mining and Manufac­turing
Company is identified around
the world by almost everyone who
does home repairs, housework or paper­work
as the maker of sandpaper and
of 3M Scotch brand transparent tape
—commonly called "Scotch tape." Few
people realize, however, the tremen­dous
variety of other 3M Company
products that are quietly in use around
them every day.
The 3M Company is a highly di­versified
organization that has grown
and prospered by following two of the
oldest rules in the business book: Find
a need and fill it; and, Find what you
can do well, and do it better than any­one
else can.
The company has grown with amaz­ing
consistency. In 1968 it set both
sales and earnings records for the 17th
consecutive year. Worldwide sales in
1968 exceeded $1.4 billion and net in­come
rose to $161.3 million. Since 1948
sales and income have multiplied about
13 times. Today 3M products are sold in
more than 150 countries, and roughly
one-third of the company's 58,000 em­ployees
are in foreign operations.
Burgess E Geib, H&S partner in
charge of the Saint Paul and Minne­apolis
Offices, looks back with satis-
16 faction over the many years of his
A fanciful staircase display of a few of the
3M Company's thousands of products is
spread out before Barbara Flandrick,
secretary at 3M. Behind her, treasurer Don
Garretson of 3M Company (I.) confers with
Mike Vinyon, H&S principal.
A second 3M Company building (r.) on the
campus east of Saint Paul was opened late
in 1968, just six years after completion of
the neighboring high-rise administrative
center.
New overhead projector enables Judy
Anderson of 3M Educational Press to face
her pupils while screening a visual aid. 3M
Company is developing school courses built
around its audio-visual aids.