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After Mike Smolyansky, 40, and Edward Puccosi, 43, emigrated from the Soviet Union, one of the things they missed most was kefir. A cultured-milk product similar to yogurt but slightly effervescent, kefir (pronounced kuh-fear in Russian) is more popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than Coca-Cola is in America. So two years ago, the men, now in Chicago, set up a company called Lifeway to make and distribute kefir...
...tracks and betting parlors. His large California real estate holdings include a $20 million home and a 157-acre site on the highest spot in Beverly Hills, where he is building a mansion. He continues to run Merv Griffin Enterprises, the TV production firm that he sold to Coca-Cola in 1986 for a reported $250 million. All told, the chairman of Griffin Co., which manages the business ventures that he still owns, is worth something like $600 million, making him one of America's richest individuals...
...asking for the question. Jeopardy's success funded Griffin's other investments, including Wheel of Fortune, the most profitable syndicated show ever, with estimated revenues of more than $100 million a year. The two shows were the trophy properties in Griffin's sale of his production company to Coca-Cola...
...ripe with reluctance and dismay. "If someone really and truly believes that his speech is keeping him from getting along in the world, I suppose he must change it. But he isn't paying any attention to how John T. Lupton talks. He's the fellow who sold his Coca-Cola bottling franchise here for a billion and a half...
Back in 1928, Coca-Cola sent off 1,000 cases of its "official soft drink" on the ship taking the American team to the Amsterdam Games. Probably seemed like a grand gesture at the time. This year, just for the privilege of calling itself the official soft drink, Coke paid a cool $3 million. The Olympics went to Los Angeles in 1984, learned all about how to cut deals and sell fantasy, and made a $215 million profit. The organizers of the Calgary Games have merely taken a leaf (a maple leaf, of course) from the Los Angeles book...