Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demoralized the firm and caused a management shakeup. MGM was attracted to UA because it owns a library of about 2,000 old films that can be sold to cable TV. MGM executives also want to control United Artists' worldwide distribution network, since they will now collect the distributor's 30% cut of their movies' gross ticket sales. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Harold Vogel: "The merger means MGM will be a stronger competitor...
...California's O'Gara Coach Co., is a distributor of armored cars to 18 foreign governments and has done business with the wealthy in some 35 other countries. He says that his clients today are less enamored of armor and gadgets and more aware of the need for professional security men. "Hiring trained people will make a 300% increase in security," says O'Gara. "An armored car is a small part of the total security package...
Even before the St Germain report, small businessmen across the U.S. were skeptical that the prime was really the best rate available. Snaps Robert Laughlin, a Portland, Ore., food-equipment distributor: "The prostituted prime is nothing but greediness on the part of large banks." Attorney Jackie Kleiner has filed suit against the First National Bank of Atlanta, alleging that it uses an artificial prime to discriminate among borrowers. Says Kleiner: "The prime rate is supposed to be the bank's cost of obtaining money, plus a small profit. But it turns out that the profits are obscene...
...making an epic Western. He was hot. He had an unlimited budget. But a painfully limited talent, $35 million worth of hubris. When the film opened in New York last November it received universally poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from N.Y. theaters after only one week. Cimino promised to re-edit the film from its 225 minutes to a more conventional length of 2 1/2 hours. Unprecedented humiliation in Movieland...
Next year General Motors Brazil will introduce 12-ton alcotrucks and Honda will make alcomotorcycles at its plant in Manaus. Ford alcotractors are being tested. A Brazilian food distributor is using an alcoboat to make deliveries to isolated communities along the banks of the Amazon. The government expects that by 1985 alcohol use will cut Brazilian gasoline consumption in half...