L. S. Starrett Company - Currently

Currently

Starrett remains a conservative, family-run company which claims to support free markets and ‘small government’ but treads a careful line between taking advantage of low-cost manufacturing bases outside the US and opposing ‘dumping’ in the US. In the late 1980s, Douglas Starrett praised Thatcherite economic policy and compared US government policy unfavorably to that of the Iron Lady in the UK while at the same time admitting that he was troubled by potential low-wage rivals from China, Taiwan and South Korea, subsidized production overseas and product dumping in US markets. The current President and CEO of the company is Douglas A Starrett and, according to the business analysts BNET, the chief decision makers are Antony A McLaughlin, former President of the Brazilian subsidiary of the organization, Starrett Indústria e Comércio Ltda., Stephen F Walsh, Senior Vice President, Operations, Anthony M Aspin, Vice President of Sales, Joel Shaughnessy, Personnel Director, Bill Livingston, Quality Control Manager, John Hedbor, Marketing Manager, Robert J Simkevich, Controller and Roy Lake, Assistant Treasurer. The chairman of the board of directors is Robert L Montgomery and other board members are Ralph C Lawrence, Ralph G Lawrence, Randall J Hylek, Richard B Kennedy, Salvador de Camargo and Terry A Piper.