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- BUSINESS, Page 67Business NotesSTOCKSPlayboy Covers Up
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- Fully half of the 28,000 stock-holders in Playboy
- Enterprises own only one share, and those certificates often
- adorn such places as taverns and gym lockers. Reason: pinup
- value. Since Playboy went public in 1971, its stock
- certificates have sported the unclad image of Willy Rey, Miss
- February of that year. But because the cost of sending dividend
- checks and providing other services to all those one-share
- stockholders amounts to $100,000 a year, Playboy has decided to
- discourage souvenir collectors by issuing new certificates.
- Printed for the first time last week, the shares depict a
- "classically styled" woman holding aloft a globe to symbolize
- the company's international ambitions. Most notably, she is
- robed in a long, flowing gown.
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