The Squibb Corporation has provided another top executive to Glaxo Inc., a pharmaceutical rival.
The Squibb Corporation, which is also a defendant in the DES lawsuits, declined to comment on market share.
In 1969, Beech-Nut was taken over by the Squibb Corporation.
But weighing simultaneous offers from the Squibb Corporation and a chemical consulting concern, she thought she could do better.
The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation.
He had directed research at the Squibb Corporation before the company's 1989 merger with the Bristol-Myers Company.
Previously, he was the chief executive officer of the Squibb Corporation.
After the war he worked for several years in sales management for the Squibb Corporation in Chicago.
Both entered last year's competition for Charles of the Ritz, which was sold in December by the Squibb Corporation.
The Squibb Corporation, based in Princeton, N.J., said net income had risen 12.6 percent from a year earlier.