Over the next decade and a half, Brooks, who became Siegler’s first president, established a reputation for supervising numerous startling acquisitions.
In June 1955, seven months after the merger, Hallamore Manufacturing Company, an electronics firm, became Siegler's first "technology" acquisition.
John G. Brooks (Echo Products, Zenith Radio, and US Army Air Corps) headed up the new enterprise.
This strategy of "buying growth" coupled with sound management proved successful.
Examples of conglomerates are LTV (Ling-Temco-Vought) and TRW (Thompson Ramo Wooldridge).