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- BUSINESS, Page 45Business NotesSOVIET INVESTMENTLet's Make Lots of Deals
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- As parts of the splintering Soviet Union lurched uncertainly
- toward free enterprise last week, some U.S. firms rushed to set
- up shop. After three years of negotiation, Kellogg said it will
- build a plant in newly independent Latvia to produce cornflakes
- and Frosted Flakes. Kellogg plans to market the brands in the
- Baltics and the Soviet Union. "Whatever form the Soviet Union
- takes, we believe the republics are headed in the right
- direction," a Kellogg spokesman said.
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- Other U.S. firms apparently agree. AT&T said that it will
- install a $6 million long-distance switch in the republic of
- Armenia next month and that it was discussing the sale of
- similar switches to other republics.
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- Meanwhile, talks between U.S. food firms and Soviet buyers
- have "absolutely mushroomed in the past few weeks," according
- to John Musselman, a director of Omaha-based Summit Ltd., which
- represents major food-processing and food-machinery companies.
- He adds, "There's now a feeling that you can do business with
- the Soviet Union."
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