Word: retails
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shifting into high gear. Next year the Turin-based company will start building the first of 1.5 million Micro subcompacts in a ten-year venture with FSM, one of Poland's major car companies. To help recoup its investment, Fiat plans to export one-third of the Micros (estimated retail price: $6,000) to Western Europe...
...modesty can be misleading. When Harper arrived in 1974, ConAgra was a nearly bankrupt company involved mainly in grain milling and commodities trading. He embarked on an expansion plan to place ConAgra at every step along "the food chain," as Harper likes to call it, from seed planting to retail sales...
Dick Tracy's famed wrist radio may be making its way to retail stores. Last week the Japanese watchmaker Seiko introduced a digital timepiece that can display long-distance messages received over FM radio waves. Like conventional beepers, the $275 Receptor MessageWatch can signal its wearer to call the office, phone home or dial a specific number displayed on the face. Messages are relayed in about one minute through a system of phone networks, FM transmitters and a miniature receiver inside the watchband...
With the U.S. deluged by drugs, the accessory trade has become a multibillion-dollar industry. The profits are high -- a crack pipe that costs 3 cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they...
...interviews and features, is getting the biggest push. After eight months of test-marketing, the magazine is poised for a nationwide rollout in June. Unlike most of its predecessors, Persona will be aimed at a mass audience. It will get wide distribution at supermarket check-out stands and other retail outlets. And it will be priced at a low, low $4.95. That is scarcely more than the cost of a blank cassette; Persona's advertising will even point out that the tape can be reused after viewing (as can all prerecorded tapes, with a little tinkering). Reason...