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Soichiro Honda, Eng.D., founder and president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo. He preferred grease on his face and a wrench in his hand to sitting behind a desk in a plush office...
Multimillionaire James Derrick Slater, co-founder of the London investment banking firm Slater, Walker Securities Ltd., credits his hobby-chess-with making him Britain's king of mergers. Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of companies all over the world, Slater would then acquire some of them through quick, strategic stock purchases. Though he built Slater, Walker into a financial holding company that last year (the latest estimate) had a market value of some $360 million, he remained largely unknown to the public until he put up $125,000 in prize money to lure Bobby Fischer to Iceland to compete...
...largely to Hawley's willingness to let his company's acquisitions maintain their separate personalities. "The best way for Neiman-Marcus to survive," he says, "is to let Stanley Marcus run it." Hawley is now negotiating to buy 20% of Britain's House of Fraser Ltd., owner of the prestigious Harrods of London and 90 other United Kingdom stores. The purchase will be a cornerstone of Hawley's plans to boost company profits ($39.8 million in 1973) by 50% over the next five years...
Twenty-seven rugby teams from all over the Northeast will compete Sunday in the Business School's annual Seven-A-Side Rugby Tournament, sponsored by the Business School rugby club and Tuborg Breweries, Ltd...
...uranium mines traditionally had been controlled by French interests, including France's atomic energy commission and two private companies. Early last year Diori decided to break France's monopoly and awarded the lucrative exploration contract to Pan Ocean Oil, Ltd., a Canadian firm. Last week, shortly after he grabbed power, Kountie said he would reopen uranium negotiations with the French...