Word: gevaert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...levers simply befuddled the Sunday photographer, and that telephoto shot of Versailles developed into a study in black. The industry's answer: sophisticated but carefree cameras that require little more than clicking the shutter. At the International Photographic Exposition in New York last week, every company from Agfa-Gevaert to Zeis-Ikon was showing off automated midgets...
...Brussels last week, Eurocrats debated the merits of the largest international merger in the Common Market's six-year history. The merger unites two firms whose trademark on roll film is familiar to the millions of camera-carrying tourists who have visited Europe. The two: Belgium's Gevaert Photo-Producten, also the world's biggest producer of X-ray film, and Germany's Agfa, Europe's biggest camera maker, which will join in a company that will control 12% of the world's photo business, more than any other firm except Kodak...
...Says Gevaert's President Henri Cappuyns: "I'm convinced that Common Market companies have to grow to Common Market size." Seeking Footholds. President de Gaulle encourages French firms to join, and helped unite glassmaking Saint-Gobain with Pechiney, one of France's largest chemical companies. Because of De Gaulle's policy, many French businessmen expect the eventual linkup of the two big privately owned French automakers, Citroën and Peugeot...
...general, the trend has been hampered by the lack of unified Common Market laws, by the fact that so many European companies are family-owned, and by restrictions on capital transfers. In order to get together and yet not violate national laws, Gevaert and Agfa had to set up separate jointly owned companies in both Belgium and West Germany...
...Broken Hill Proprietary 2,000 5 10,000 Dresdener Bank 300 49 14,700 Karstadt Rudolph 100 D.M. 75 180 13,500 Kaufholf A.G. Bearer Shares 50 194 9,700 Netherlands Insurance Co. of 1845 3 3,770 11,310 Perrier ADR 1,000 14 14,000 Photo-Products Gevaert 500 22 11,000 S.A. Super Bazars 500 22 11,000 Supermarches...