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...Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had recently acquired a 20% interest in the company, that it would stand by the present management. That beat off the challenge of the takeover-minded dissidents, at least for the time being. At the same time, small but glowing Seven Arts Production Ltd., headed by ex-Tire Executive Eliot Hyman, announced that it would purchase 1,600,000 shares of Warner Bros., giving it one-third of the stock and control of the company. Seven Arts will pay $32 million for the shares to Jack Warner, last active brother of the four...
Such scornful sentiments have helped to make shaggy, unorthodox Robert Maxwell, 43, Britain's most unpopular publisher - among other publishers. By acting on his beliefs, Maxwell has not only become a multimillionaire, but also in 15 years has lifted his Pergamon Press Ltd. from obscurity to No. 1 rank as a publisher of scientific and technical books (600 last year) and trade journals (120, from The Archives of Oral Biology to Problems of Cybernetics...
Under Justin's guidance, Twiggy has become not just a model but an industry. Already he has helped her to set up Twiggy Enterprises, Ltd., of which he is a partner. Soon there will be Twiggy boutiques and a Twiggy line of clothes (first design: a belted hybrid toga and kimono), and negotiations are under way with a cosmetics house in Paris for a Twiggy perfume. For a career that began only nine months ago, such success is at the moment all too intoxicating, and Justin is keeping his fingers crossed. "I almost starved," says...
...which is not seen in domestic markets. Pepsi has a line of fruit drinks called Mirinda. The global market has few seasonal fluctuations. When cold weather comes to Europe and Japan, the sun shines all the brighter in Australia and Africa. Says Britain's Lord Watkinson, whose Schweppes Ltd. is also a Pepsi bottler: "It doesn't rain or snow all over the world at the same time...
Several years ago, for example, the Ford Motor Company (Canada) Ltd. had concluded a deal to export automobiles, manufactured in Canada, to Communist China. The deal was killed in Detroit...