Word: ralston
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Reflecting the growing sense of the difference animals can make, regulations for federally subsidized housing now assure that the elderly and handicapped can keep pets. Last month the Ralston Purina Co. announced a $1 million program to help local humane societies and shelters fund the initial costs of adopting a pet for those over...
...story, created hardly a ripple. It was exactly a year, and the September 1986 issue of Art & Antiques, before the import of Wyeth's remarks became strikingly clear. The closing of the circle came last April, when Schaire was visiting Pennsylvania for another story and met with Peter Ralston, a photographer and friend of the Wyeths'. Ralston told him to get in the car, he had a "surprise" to show him. An hour later, Schaire was poring over the 240 works that are now the talk of the art world...
Still, some U.S. firms have succeeded. IBM, Polaroid, NCR, Ralston Purina and Motorola have flourishing Japanese operations. McDonald's of Japan is the country's largest food-service company, with 457 shops. 7-Eleven has 2,299 stores in Japan, 308 of which opened during the past year. IBM has been operating in Japan since 1937, and earns more than $350 million a year there. Among the reasons: the vast majority of its 15,000 employees in Japan are locals, and the company works with several Japanese partners, including Mitsubishi and Kanematsu-Gosho...
...Geneen left the board in May 1983 that Araskog, a West Point graduate who grew up on a Minnesota farm, could assume full command. The clearest signal that he was committed to major divestitures came last August, when ITT sold Continental Baking, which makes Wonder bread and Twinkies, to Ralston Purina for $475 million...
...which are indiscriminate with their low-rent rendezvous. Further, the AKC is one of the oldest amateur-sports governing bodies in the U.S., and it oversees about 10,000 dog shows, obedience trials and field trials annually. To boot (now comes the information picked up around the fringe), Ralston Purina is self-described as "the most trusted name in pet foods," while Mighty Dog is "the pure beef brand," though Kal Kan is "the stuff great dogs are made of and Edge is "rich in brewer's yeast...