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...charges that Japanese businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their home markets closed to foreign competition, Sony Corp. last year ran full-page ads in U.S. newspapers offering to help American companies sell their goods in Japan. The ads were more effective than Sony had bargained for. Motorola Inc. quickly sought the Japanese giant's aid in marketing, of all things, TV sets in Japan, and embarrassed Sony executives had no choice but to comply. So, while Americans continue to buy great numbers of Sony and other Japanese TV sets, Motorola is about to give Sony some...
This policy has attracted such foreign-owned giants as Vöest, an Austrian combine that is expected to turn out $1.1 million worth of steel annually on Taiwan, and a slew of electronics firms: Sony, Hitachi, RCA, Motorola, Zenith, Admiral. Taiwan is now the chief supplier of black-and-white TV sets to the U.S. Ford Motor Co. has embarked on a $36.3 million venture with Lio Ho, a Taiwanese firm, to produce several small economy cars, selling at around $1,600, for the Asian market. The island also produces Sanyang motorcycles. Taiwan lately has switched to seeking capital...
...Swiss and the Japanese use a "stepdown" motor. Linking these mechanisms to the quartz crystal is an integrated electronic-circuit chip, and U.S. electronic firms are enthusiastically moving to supply the chips to the quartz watch market. Japanese, Swiss and American watchmakers are buying theirs from such firms as Motorola and Texas Instruments...
...brands into hotels and motels, but Holiday Inns goes one better: it buys bourbon and Scotch in bulk from Schenley at substantial savings and sells it under the Holiday Inns brand. Last year the company saved another bundle with volume buying by issuing a single order for 40,000 Motorola television sets. Cutting costs extends to the smallest things, like using nonwrinkle sheets to save on pressing. Instead of buying expensive rugs, Holiday Inns' chiefs save money by ordering cheaper rugs and chucking them out after three or four years. At many inns the soap bars that guests rarely...
Construction Spurt. There are a number of more favorable portents. The long-reticent U.S. consumer may finally be in a shopping mood: retail sales for mid-April were 7% above those for a year ago, and last week Motorola reported a 65% jump in unit sales over April 1970. A continuation of the high level of residential building and a sudden spurt in other construction (up 6% for March on the Dodge index) encourages hope that the owners of all this new living and working space will decide to buy furniture and appliances for it in the not-too-distant...