How Sir James may set about pulping Crown Zellerbach
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James Goldsmith, an Anglo-French financier, was able to acquire 51.2 percent of Crown Zellerbach Corp. in July 1985 for $560 million after eight months of struggles with the firm's management, including a poisin-pill attempt on the part of Crown Zellerbach's chairman, William T. Creson, that was averted by purchasing shares on the open market rather than going for the whole company. Many who had ties with the venerable forest products firm decried the move as a signal of its impending doom, but others believe that despite its debt and some out-dated mills and merchandise, Crown Zellerbach holds great promise. The financial problems besetting the firm prior to its acquisition by Goldsmith and the outlook for the company in the wake of the acquisition are described.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1986
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Avoiding the 'cancer of arrogance' in a high tech start-up
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Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has helped the five-year-old firm he co-founded to develop from a garage start-up to a Fortune 500 public company. Total Sun Microsystems sales are expected to exceed $500 million this year, about 40 percent of which will come from outside the US. Sun's apparent big advantage is that it developed at a time when interest in workstations blossomed. The company used an 'open architecture' system that allowed users to connect to and obtain data from other Sun machines.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1987
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How California farmers make the world nuts about almonds
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The California Almond Growers Exchange (CAGE) , originator of the Blue-Diamond brand name for almonds, has made almonds a leading export product. CAGE reported sales of $348 million in almonds for 1985, representing 60 percent of California's almond exports. CAGE, the second oldest agricultural cooperative in the U.S. (behind Sunkist), has 5,900 members and a 75 year history. The largest foreign markets for CAGE almonds are Japan and West Germany.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1986
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