Word: maker
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Companies currently being sought in the merger sweepstakes include many well-known names. Among them is Faberge, a cosmetics and fragrance firm that has become the object of a lively bidding war. McGregor Corp., a men's and boys' clothing maker, is offering $32 a share for Faberge, or $2 more than has so far been bid by anyone else. If the McGregor proposal succeeds, Faberge would become part of Meshulam Riklis's Rapid-American empire, which owns majority control of McGregor. Merger mania has had prospective targets searching for effective defenders (see box), and has inspired...
Edwardes left in November 1982, and will become chairman of International Computers Ltd. this spring. His legacy to BL includes a talented management team, among them his successor, Sir Austin Bide, 68, and John Egan, 43, who was recruited in 1980 from Massey-Ferguson, the farm-equipment maker, to head BL's sputtering Jaguar division. In 1980 Jaguar was losing $1.5 million a week, and its sleek models had acquired a well-deserved reputation for shoddy workmanship and unreliability. Egan cut Jaguar's work force by nearly 30% and helped improve labor relations by holding family gatherings...
...that his family name would have a familiar ring to Windy City buyers. His great-uncle Frank was a mayor of Chicago in the 1930s and founder of a football team called the Corr Flashes. But by putting the trademark Corr's on bottles and cans, the soda maker uncapped the rivalry of another proud name: Coors...
...Colo., brewer showed little concern about the sound-alike name until last year, when Corr's started showing up in grocery stores in 50 states. The beer company sued in a Denver federal court, demanding that Corr's change its name. Coors claimed that the tiny soda maker was trying to trade on the brewer's identity. As evidence, it cited one of Corr's slogans, "Made with pure Rocky Mountain water," which barely differs from the beer company's famous motto...
...poet-film maker is prepared for trouble. "I feel some invisible enemy is working against my movie," says Yevtushenko, who at 50 still has the youthful exuberance that helped make him a literary pop star in the will keep my film from being seen around the country." Although Kindergarten was given preliminary approval for showing, a government agency must now decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger...