In the movie The Graduate, a young Dustin Hoffman was pulled aside by a successful older man and given the secret to making a fortune in business: "Plastics".
If they can turn that information over, he argues, it makes the small-business plastic a de facto consumer card.
Mr. Usmanov, a native of Uzbekistan who got his start in post-Soviet business selling plastic bags, made a fortune in metals and mining during the commodity boom of the past decade.
Take everything you've heard about Houston – the big, sweltering, fast-moving city full of money, business and plastic surgery in conservative-leanin', horse-ridin' meat-lovin' Texas – and throw it out the window.
Every camera movement, nearly every bit of incidental business — a plastic bag blowing along a dark, empty street like a tumbleweed; a pigeon fluttering into the frame — was blocked out, controlled, adjusted, repeated.
In 1950 Li quit to start his own business making plastic toys and everyday items.
The purchase of Anura Plastics Engineering Corp. by Freudenberg NOK is part of a policy to expand the company business of plastic and silicone moulded products in the healthcare, medical and biotech markets.
Oberthur eventually got out of the paper money business, expecting plastic payment cards to replace banknotes.
The business of plastics recycling was supplemented in February with the announcement of a program to modernize the country's plastic recycling facilities.
Dr. Reed said that all upscale businesses — including plastic surgeons' offices — are seeking creative marketing strategies to stay afloat.
TYCO INTERNATIONAL LTD., Bermuda, a diversified manufacturer whose businesses include plastic garment hangers and trash bags, bought King Packaging Co., a maker of disposable meal kits for food service companies, from Imperial Sugar Co., Sugar Land, Tex., for $28 million in cash.
