i know where he can GO / what a pin head
Whiny Kilts puts Boston on notice: Gillette head slams Hub, warns critics
By Brett Arends
Friday, September 9, 2005 - Updated: 03:24 AM EST
Gillette Chief Executive James Kilts lashed out at the Hub yesterday, complaining he had become ``Boston's pinata'' and implying the city has a ``negative attitude.''
The Rye, N.Y.-based Kilts, who will make about $180 million from the sale of Gillette Co. to Ohio-based Procter & Gamble, also decried ``Boston's assault on the merger'' and issued a thinly veiled threat that the company's new masters in Cincinnati might punish the Hub by cutting off further investment.
And he made the remarkable admission that he's only staying with Gillette because P&G insisted on it as a condition of the blockbuster deal. ``Walking away would have been fine with me,'' he said.
Kilts' aggressive and confrontational speech took place in front of about 200 business leaders at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce meeting downtown, and lasted the best part of an hour