Word: polaroiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HANOVER, N.H.--The Harvard men's hockey team and its new Polaroid One-Step...
Very few firms these days are big enough to be safe from takeovers. This year alone, such familiar institutions as Kroger, Polaroid and Bloomingdale's (Federated Department Stores) have come under attack. One reason for the buyout binge is the amount of money available for acquisitions. Private investors have guaranteed more than $30 billion in capital to large takeover funds, providing would-be raiders with the capital to mount their attacks. Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, an investment firm with $5.6 billion for use in takeovers, is a leader in the field. Since the takeover funds can borrow against their capital, they...
...When Polaroid announced two weeks ago that it was reducing its work force by as much as 8% and putting more stock in the hands of the remaining employees, Wall Street realized immediately what the company was up to: trying to boost the price of its shares and protect itself against takeovers. Little did the markets know, however, that Polaroid was already being stalked by a raider. For weeks, Shamrock Holdings, the investment company owned by Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, had been secretly accumulating Polaroid stock. At the same time, Shamrock sent letters to Polaroid's management proposing...
...thriving enterprise that owns three TV and 14 radio stations. In 1984 Disney helped put together a new management team at the struggling Walt Disney Co. that transformed the firm into one of the hottest in the entertainment business. Now Disney apparently aims to do the same for Polaroid, which has not had strong growth in a decade...
Adapting to the change in fortune, Polaroid announced last week that it plans to add regular film to its continuing line of instant-camera products. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., hopes to wrest a fraction of the $7 billion-a-year world market for conventional film from industry leaders Eastman Kodak, which controls 60% of sales, and Fuji Photo Film, with 25%. One giant plus on Polaroid's side is its brand-name recognition. In just two years of testing in Spain and Portugal, Polaroid-labeled 35-mm, 110-mm and 126-mm film captured about...