home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT1585>
- <title>
- June 18, 1990: Business Notes:Stocks
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 67
- Business Notes
- STOCKS
- Playboy Covers Up
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-