Co-founder of Matchbox Toys dies
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The co-founder of Matchbox Toys, Jack Odell, dies aged 87 - almost 60 years after the firm was founded.
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The passing of a fashion entrepreneur
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The founder of the Build-A-Bear Workshop is backing a new concept called Ridemakerz, a make-and-outfit your own toy car business.
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Marketing firm Forstmann Little is set to buy giant sports and lifestyle management company IMG. The firm is being acquired from trusts set up by IMG founder, Mark McCormack, who died in May 2003, and from the family of IMG vice-chair Arthur Lafave.
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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.
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The famed toymaker cranks out about 15 billion bricks and other components a year. It just won't be doing much of that at its home base any more.
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Actress and comedian Brett Somers, who amused game show fans with her quips on the "Match Game" in the 1970s, has died, her son said. She was 83. Somers died Saturday at her home in Westport of stomach and colon cancer, Adam Klugman said Monday.
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Heart problems Al Shugart, co-founder of the hard disk maker Seagate, has died at the age of 76.â¦
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily September 17, 2004 - NEW YORK - Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band, The Ramones, died Wednesday, Sept. 15, at his Los Angeles home. He was 55.
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LOS ANGELES Billionaire Marvin Davis, former owner of 20th Century Fox studios, the Pebble Beach Company and the Beverly Hills Hotel, died today at his home in Beverly Hills.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, an NFL visionary who helped foster the NFL-AFL merger, dies Thursday at age 74.
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The founder of the legendary Bowery punk-rock club died on Tuesday from lung cancer. He was 75.
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Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, who used her international cosmetics chain to promote eco-friendly practices long before they were widely fashionable, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.
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Alfred Mann, 81, has one of the most prolific entrepreneurial records in American industry. His fortune has been estimated at more than $2 billion, on a scale with the founders of Boston Scientific. Over five decades he has launched a series of inventions and philanthropies, and currently chairs numerous small companies he founded.
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Fashion house Liz Claiborne Inc. says founder Liz Claiborne, whose styles became an important influence for career women in the 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday.
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Comic actor Charles Nelson Reilly, a lauded Broadway performer and campy game show guest in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in Los Angeles, a representative for the actor said on Monday.