Bond Receptive to Offer
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A spokesman for Australia’s troubled Bond Corp. Holdings Ltd. said the company is willing to hear from Jeff Reynolds, a Los Angeles businessman who announced that he wanted to take control of the Australian company. Bond Corp. executive Peter Lucas said the company “looked forward to the next communication” from Reynolds. Reynolds, 28, announced that he was prepared to invest $250 million in Bond Corp. and in return take control of the company, whose brewing interests are now in the hands of receivers. The breweries include G. Heileman Brewing Co. of La Crosse, Wis. Reynolds is chairman of Los Angeles-based Weatherby Investments.
