Word: muir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diverse as pipeline-corrosion monitors, coin-operated electronic games, nutritional foods and hair care products have all been able to sell their shares. In the largest offering yet this year, Nike Inc., maker of the popular running shoes, sold 2.3 million shares last week at $22 each. John Muir & Co., an investment banking firm in New York City, even succeeded in launching a public offering to get the backing for a Broadway show called The Little Prince...
...Bendel's upper four floors, Stutz in the early 1960s began selling the latest creations of young, and then unknown, designers such as Jean Muir, Sonia Rykiel and later, Mary McFadden. Then, in a move that shocked other retailers, she instructed them to design clothes that would fit only the slender. Bendel catered to women almost as thin as fashion models with dress sizes that ranged from 2 to 10. Instead of driving away business, the move gave the store a certain cachet. In 1979 Bendel earned $1.4 million on $15 million in sales...
Still touchingly enthusiastic and naive at 42, Rubin is a $36,000-a-year securities analyst at John Muir & Co. He says that his task is investigating "companies of the future," such as solar-power firms, and "finding the financing for the socially aware risk takers who will become tomorrow's titans." But his boss, Research Director Ray Dirks, expects Rubin to provide the company with something else. Says Dirks: "A lot of people who were around in the '60s have matured, and some of them want to invest. We can use somebody like...