Word: richardson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...familiar ring to it, like Jell-O and Oreo or NyQuil and Clearasil, it can be worth millions of dollars. Companies that sell household products with well-known brand names have become the hottest targets in the latest round of merger wars. Last week two big packaged-goods firms--Richardson-Vicks and Revlon--escaped hostile takeovers, but only by rushing into the arms of other suitors...
...Richardson-Vicks, which sells such popular products as NyQuil cough syrup and Clearasil acne cream, agreed to sell out to Procter & Gamble for $1.24 billion and thus avoid a bid from Unilever. Revlon, which markets items ranging from Charlie perfume to Tums antacid tablets, eluded Pantry Pride by accepting a buy-out offer of about $1.7 billion from Forstmann Little. If the deals go through, Richardson-Vicks and Revlon will join General Foods (Jell-O, Maxwell House coffee) and Nabisco (Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers) on the list of consumer-goods titans being taken over this year...
...Richardson-Vicks, based in Wilton, Conn., the trouble began last month, when its stockholders received a $54-a-share offer from Unilever, the British- Dutch household-products giant. Prior to the bid, Richardson-Vicks had been trading for about $40 a share. Nonetheless, its executives spurned the offer, thinking they could get even more for the company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble...
From that moment, the film fragments and divides into three plots: the past (in which a young twenty-ish Jean--played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson--soars through her first and most powerful romance); dinner-party flashbacks that might lead to some explanation of Morgan's mess; and the present--we see Jean coming to grips with why he "did it" to her as well as some impressively incisive glimpses into the lives of several of Jean's new acquaintances...
...seems worth it. The depot's main building, finished in 1894, is a massive, lovable quirk. The local architect, Theodore Link, was obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...