Swedish Match A.B., Sweden's only maker of matches and tobacco products, offered yesterday to buy a 64percentt stake in General Cigar Holdings Inc. for $170 million to expand abroad while focusing on cigars and snuff products.
DIAMOND BRANDS OPERATING CORP., Cloquet, Minn., a maker of matches and other household products, said it had hired a group of investment advisers to help the company explore strategic alternatives.
To invoke again the sporting comparison, it is hard to imagine Manchester United boss David Moyes being appointed as a non-executive director of the BBC to supervise football coverage, or West Ham's Sam Allardyce becoming a "sounding board" for the makers of Match of the Day.
Wainwright, like his studio, is difficult to categorize: a discipline straddler, an innovator, a maker of curious matches.
In February he acquired Diamond Brands, maker of toothpicks, kitchen matches and plastic cutlery; in September he picked up Lehigh Consumer Products, a Macungie, Pa.-based vendor of rope, cord and twine.
As a maker of art, Smithson was no match for the three other leading postminimalists — Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, who let their work speak for them.
The Cullman family, known for its multigenerational tobacco interests, was involved with General Cigar from the early 1960s until 2005, when the company was sold to Swedish Match, a maker of snuff and other tobacco products.
Swedish Match A.B., maker of Cricket lighters and White Owl cigars, agreed yesterday to buy the brands owned by the closely held National Tobacco Company for $165 million to add the Beech-Nut and Durango names to its Red Man chewing tobacco line.
It interviews each member thoroughly to find out exactly who they are and what they want, before a specialist team of match-makers pairs up potential couples.
Lastly, the SBA wants to use its clout in the market, and its position in the Cabinet to play the role of match-maker.
According to the paper, Singapore's Table Tennis Association president Lee Bee Wah said that the role of match-maker has been entrusted to Chan Chun Sing, the current Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports.
