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Though birth rates are declining, and merchants to the spoon-fed set are facing hard times, one fairly young company is beating the baby slump. Britain's Mothercare, Ltd., started in 1961 by Chairman Selim Zilkha, runs a unique chain of one-stop, self-service supermarkets that sell maternity wares and everything that a baby needs from cradle through kindergarten. Zilkha's 143 shops spread across England to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is opening two more stores this month and plans another 120 shops in Britain. Zilkha, whose ambition is to become the global king...
...every medallion puts you well on your way to amassing a private Treasury of this precious metal." The first medal sells for $1, and the rest in the series cost $10 each. But 525 grains of silver are worth only about $2 in the wholesale market. The Silver Coalition Ltd. offers a series of out-of-print U.S. currency struck on a small silver ingot. The first ingot of the series, issued in a limited edition of 10,000, contains 20 ounces of silver and sells for $200. The real wholesale market worth of 20 ounces of silver is about...
Slater says that chess has taught him much about winning in business. He built a fortune by becoming a master of the corporate takeover, analyzing companies' strengths and weaknesses, then moving to capture them by means of quick, surprising purchases of stock. Though his Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. was founded only eight years ago, his takeover tactics have made it one of the largest investment-banking firms in Europe. It owns major or controlling interests in 200 companies and, Slater insists, "half of them do not even know about it." Slater, Walker has assets of some $800 million; last...
...opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel put the travelers up for a night in $20-a-day rooms without charge, and British Caledonian Airways and Wimpy International Ltd., a hamburger chain, chartered a plane and flew them home free...
That is the campaign's theme. The promotion calls for the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., which makes Datsuns, to pay for a tree seedling to be planted by the U.S. Forest Service in the name of anyone who test-drives a Datsun up to Oct. 15. So far, company officials report, public response has been enthusiastic, although it is too early to tell how many nature lovers will be prompted to buy as well as test-drive Datsuns...