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<text id=90TT1585>
<title>
June 18, 1990: Business Notes:Stocks
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<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
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<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.
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</body>
</article>
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