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THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG Book by Neil Simon Music by Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager...
...Rossignol's 3,000 employees, 100 work full time in research and development, a proportion unique among ski makers. In their search for the "ultimate ski," the designers, together with West Germany's Bayer AG, are exploring the properties of polyurethane and compressed air. Boix-Vives is also planning a whole new product line. A dedicated schusser, he was inspired by an American study showing that 80% of his fellow skiers also play tennis. So he plans to spend $1.3 million to get Rossignol racquets into production. The racquets will be a molded mix of metal and plastic...
...Bayer AG, the huge West German chemical firm, is best known in the U.S. for a product it has not owned for 60 years: its American rights to the name and trademark of Bayer aspirin were confiscated during World War I and thereafter given to Sterling Drug. Since the '50s, Bayer (pronounced Buyer in Germany) has been getting back into the U.S. market acquiring Mobay Chemical of Pittsburgh and Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., but it has never regained a significant position in U.S. consumer drugs. Last week it moved to do so, by offering "at least...
Miles is an obvious takeover target. Since 1972 its sales have grown from $316 million to $450 million, but profits have increased only from $15 million to $16.2 million. Acquisition of Miles would raise Bayer's American sales to around $1 billion a year (worldwide sales last year were $8.3 billion, and profits $181 million). But Bayer officials say that though they may go higher than their opening $40-a-share offer, they have no intention of getting into a long battle for Miles-and besides Washington trustbusters are examining whether the acquisition would violate antitrust laws. Should they...
...year, and competing manufacturers have shed almost all advertising restraints in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of buyers. At times they have made claims that are exaggerated, misleading or downright false. The battle of words has, in fact, become openly aggressive ("Tylenol, shame on you!" scolds a Bayer ad). The Federal Government, which began to crack down on deceptive advertising of over-the-counter drugs by pharmaceutical companies in 1972, is now threatening other measures as well...