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- <text id=91TT2102>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Soviet Investment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- SOVIET INVESTMENT
- Let's Make Lots of Deals
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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