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Moreover, consider that a similar "coincidence" occured during the '84 campaign, when Jackson called for a boycott on Coca Cola for their moral ineptitude in employee related issues. His half brother soon became the first Black distributor in Coke's history and earned the millions necessary to start his cement company...
...fastest-climbing single of the decade, and the biggest seller in the history of Columbia Records. To date, at least 4 million copies have been snapped up and often passed along. "People buy three, four, even five at a time," says Mark Tindle, marketing director of a Dallas distributor. "It's their way of giving to charity." The We Are the World album debuted this week at No. 9 on Billboard's chart. It contains nine previously unreleased tracks by participating artists, including some particularly nifty contributions from Bruce Springsteen (a searing version of Jimmy Cliff's Trapped), Huey Lewis...
Reginald's brother, Warrington, was one of three Yale graduates to create the Black Filmmakers' Foundation, a Black film distributor and support organization that has sponsored film series in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam. Roach said that this organization helped him choose the films for the showings...
...hooked on fish. They are ordering not only such old standards as sole, salmon, striped bass and swordfish but the more exotic species as well. Restaurants and markets across the country tally big increases in sales of shellfish and finfish. The experience of Inland Seafood Corp., a wholesale distributor of fresh and high-quality frozen fish in Atlanta, is typical. "Our sales have increased about 20% every year over the past four years," says Bill Demmond, vice president in charge of purchasing. As the demand increases, so does the marketability of what used to be considered "trash" fish, now more...
...Nomenclature is central to fish marketing," says Bob Rubin, a partner in the Chicago Fish House, a wholesale distributor. "The name has to sound good. You could have a perfect fish that tastes like candy, but if it's called a ratfish, it won't sell." Speaking of the tilapia, a prolific and delicately flavored fish, he says, "It doesn't sound like something you'd want to eat." Bill Demmond is not so sure. "Fishermen couldn't give away amberjack," he says. "Now it sells for $1 a pound wholesale. We can't keep enough seafood. If they catch...