Business
Thomas T.
July 11, 1988
World & Nation
Twenty-five years ago, Kenji Kawada used to hike through mountain forests to handpick the hinoki cypress trees that he would use to build shrines and temples, without nails, the same way it has been done for centuries.
Dec. 20, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
Film: Spurred by the popularity of U.S. films in Japan, Marubeni Corp., a giant Japanese trading company, and Toho-Towa Co. have agreed to invest $123 million in an international consortium supporting Paramount Pictures Corp.’
May 14, 1996
Ube Industries Ltd., a Japanese maker of chemicals, cement and machinery, established a joint venture with Britain’s Marubeni Corp. to provide plastic composites to users in Europe such as auto makers and producers of office automation equipment, the companies announced today.
Nov. 26, 1990
Hitachi Ltd., Japan’s largest electronics maker, formed a joint venture with Clarity Partners and Marubeni Corp. to supply components used in fiber-optic equipment, a market it estimates is growing 36% a year.
Sept. 20, 2000
The allure of doing business in China--investing in the vast economic potential of this slumbering socialist giant and gaining a toehold in a market of 1.1 billion consumers--may have been shattered by the anti-democracy massacre 10 days ago on Beijing’s Tian An Men Square.
June 13, 1989
Harvard University and Merrill Lynch & Co. have settled a lawsuit in which the school accused the securities firm of defrauding it of $45 million in a 1989 stock transaction.
March 20, 1991
Campbell Automotive Group, one of the largest new car retailers in the nation, has sold its Campbell Nissan-Buena Park dealership as part of a move to trim down in the face of a declining economy.
Oct. 23, 1990
Despite a sagging market for office space and a potential glut of hotel rooms, the City Council and Redevelopment Agency have jointly approved construction of three office buildings and the downtown’s fourth new hotel since 1980.
July 18, 1985
Occidental Chemical Shuns Vietnam Venture: The unit of Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. has pulled out of a $109-million polyvinyl chloride resin venture in southern Vietnam, the Vietnam Investment Review said.
Sept. 23, 1996