King pin

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Des Randall became chief executive of Australia's biggest gambling machine maker, Aristocrat Leisure, in Jul, 1998, and since then the company's stock price has more than tripled. Randall hopes to take the company global by 2004, making half its profits in Japan, the US, and South Africa. The company started as a family business in a Sydney suburb in 1952, producing two machines a week.

Author: Jacques, Bruce
Officials and employees, Behavior, Randall, Des, Aristocrat Leisure Proprietary Ltd.

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Battle of the bottle

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Strong competition in Australia's liquor industry is pressuring distributors to lower prices. The largest distributors include UDV, MaxxiuM, Seagram, Swift & Moore, and will be joined by Fosters.

Author: Jacques, Bruce
Management, Fosters Brewing Group Ltd., Seagram Beverage Co., Liquor industry, UDV, Swift and Moore Proprietary Ltd.

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