NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 March 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/A2-13
Genafspiller mandag den 19. marts 1990
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19th of March 1990 News
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Gerber Charge Set
Date: 20 March 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The Gerber Products Company said it would take an after-tax charge of $8.3 million, or 22 cents a share, against its fourth-quarter income to consolidate its Gerber Childrenswear business. The move will eliminate certain ''nonstrategic product lines and reduction of excess manufacturing capacity,'' the company said.
Chase Revises Plan
Date: 20 March 1990
LEAD: The Chase Manhattan Corporation announced a revision to its dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plan to eliminate the purchase of shares at a 3 percent discount to market value. Chase offered to sell new shares at a discounted price in October 1989 to rebuild its equity capital after taking special losses from its loans to developing countries.
Multifoods Filling By Archer-Daniels
Date: 20 March 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, the giant grain company based in Decatur, Ill., has acquired 6.7 percent of the International Multifoods Corporation. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Archer-Daniels-Midland said it had acquired the shares of the Minneapolis-based company for investment purposes.
Dragon Introduces Voice 'Typewriter'
Date: 20 March 1990
Reuters
LEAD: A Massachusetts technology company introduced what it said was the first commercially viable ''typewriter'' that operates by human speech instead of touch. Dragon Systems Inc. in Newton said its Dragon Dictate had a basic vocabulary of 30,000 words, with an 80,000-word dictionary built in as a backup, and could print out more than 40 words a minute when operated by an experienced user.
Walter T. Ridder, 72, Retired News Executive
Date: 19 March 1990
LEAD: Walter T. Ridder, a retired news executive who helped create Knight-Ridder Inc., died after a long illness Saturday at his home in McLean, Va. He was 72 years old.
Coca-Cola Report On Profit Margins
Date: 20 March 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The Coca-Cola Company's profit margins widened last year in every region of the world except the home base in the United States, the company said in a report to shareholders. Coke's operating profits as a percentage of sales in the slow-growing American market eased to 11.6 percent in 1989, from 11.8 percent the previous year, the report said.
RJR Nabisco Stake Is Sold by Drexel
Date: 20 March 1990
LEAD: Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. has sold its stake in the RJR Nabisco Holdings Corporation at cost to Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company. The sale, made on Feb. 23, was disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing and indicated that shares in the company were still valued at about the same level they were when the company was taken private in 1988 in a buyout led by Kohlberg,
Really Useful Stake To Holmes a Court
Date: 20 March 1990
AP
LEAD: The entertainment company Really Useful Group P.L.C. said the Australian financier Robert Holmes a Court had bought a 4.18 percent stake, threatening the plan of the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber to take the company private. Mr. Lloyd Webber is offering 233 pence, or $3.75, a share, for the stock.
2 Drug Concerns In Product Accord
Date: 20 March 1990
LEAD: The XOMA Corporation, a therapeutic products company in Berkeley, Calif., and Ortho Biotech, a division of the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, will develop two products for treating immune-related diseases. The products are designed to eliminate specific disease-related cells without causing harm to other cells.