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From the red-brick Glasgow factory of D. & H. Cohen Ltd. come 150,000 colorful kilts annually, which ladies eagerly buy off clothing racks throughout most of the world. In the U.S., the cry is for "knee ticklers," but for Chair man Denis Bonchy Cohen, 51, even mini-kilts are possible. "As long as it's pleated and made to our basic design," says Cohen, "they can have...
...Cohen Ltd. is as tightly man aged as its products are woven. Stock is held by Bonchy Cohen and his brother-in-law. Bonchy runs the show, though he is self-deprecating about his role in the company's 55-year performance. "What attracted you to the industry, Mr. Cohen?" he asks himself aloud. Then he replies: "My father was the boss." Bonchy 's father, David, immigrated to London from Vilna (now in the U.S.S.R.), where, at the age of nine, he was set to work in a cap factory by his father, who spent his own days...
...moved to larger quarters since then, but its traditions remain entrenched. "Our aim is to produce good merchandise," says Bonchy, "and to keep workers employed for a full year's production. It was an example set by my father and brother." Though 50% unionized, D. & H. Cohen Ltd. has never had a strike. Quality standards are Scottishly rigid. One West Indian store, which asked for low-priced kilts, received the typically brisk reply: "This is not in our line of production...
...exit. "I was in the position," he explained, "where I could only move sideways or backwards." Therefore, he and his associates sold their 720,000 shares of MGM. Of that total, 420,000 were bought at $59 a share by the youthful (38) president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Ltd., Edgar M. Bronfman, in a personal transaction. The remaining 300,000 shares were acquired, at the same price, by Time...
...which the U.S. buys. "When the U.S. wants fish hooks," an American buyer recently told a visiting British businessman, "she wants them in millions." To provide the millions-and to help their nation improve its trade balance-a group of Britons has organized a marketing company called Lion & Unicorn, Ltd. after the royal coat of arms...