Word: chairman
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...Consolidated Gold Fields, the world's second largest gold producer, had gathered last week at the London Zoo for a dinner party to celebrate the company's rebuff in May of a hostile takeover bid by South African-controlled Minorco. Not until the meal was over did ConsGold Chairman Rudolph Agnew inform his troops that the company's board had accepted a $5.5 billion takeover bid from Hanson PLC, the $12.5 billion British group whose holdings include Jacuzzi and Farberware...
Lord Hanson, the company's chairman, and Sir Gordon White, head of U.S. operations, have built their empire by acquiring assets at bargain prices and then selling off pieces to pay down their debts. As a result, the 102-year-old ConsGold, which owns 49% of Newmont Mining, the largest gold producer in the U.S., is likely to be split up. Some of its divisions may wind up in the hands of the company's first suitor, Minorco...
That won't be easy. Arab officials all but pronounced the plan dead in its tracks. In Tunis, P.L.O spokesman Ahmed Abdul-Rahman said Shamir's conditions represent a "complete rejection of American and Palestinian efforts to bring about peace." P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat did not comment publicly, but he was known to be concerned that Shamir's intransigence might trigger a fresh wave of violence in the occupied territories and cede the upper hand to radical elements within the P.L.O. who oppose Arafat's attempts to promote more moderate policies...
...revenues of $456 million for the twelve months ending last January, an increase of 35% from the previous year and not far from the $580 million in sales racked up in 1988 by L.L. Bean, still the captain of the sportswear-catalog industry. Lands' End, launched in 1963 by Chairman Gary Comer, then a 36-year-old advertising copywriter at Young & Rubicam in Chicago, sells moderately priced, well-made staples. Among them: oxford-cloth shirts ($19.50); cotton twill skirts ($32.50); and silk foulard ties ($19). One of the company's specialties is the many-pocketed canvas attache bag ($39.50), which...
...CREW. Based in Manhattan's up-and-coming Flatiron section and housed in a loft building with hardwood floors and exposed industrial pipes, J. Crew is far from folksy. The company's offerings are decidedly casual but with a note of sophistication. Arthur Cinader, 61, J. Crew's chairman, describes the J. Crew look as "understated flair." Cinader, whose family-owned firm operates a clothing-and-furnishings catalog business called Popular Club Plan, started J. Crew six years ago and had an almost instant...