Tackling life and business head-on builds a prosperous empire

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Garry Yost heads Australia Power Industries Pty Ltd (API), which he describes as the country's largest fiber-optic cabling company. API's turnover for fiscal 1997 totaled A$16.5 million, with A$24 million forecast for 1998. Biographical information on Yost is included. He grew up in Tasmania and has traveled widely. He abandoned his South African fortune in 1994 and bought into API.

Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Fiber Optics Systems & Equip, Communications equipment, not elsewhere classified, Management, Australia, Fiber optic networks, Fiber optics industry, Yost, Garry, Australian Power Industries Pty Ltd

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GM and Ford indicate a sharp turn into Asia

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Issues are presented concerning the mergers and acquisitions which have occurred in the automobile manufacturing industry during the late 1990s. The strategy of General Motors and the Ford Motor Company to move into Asia is discussed.

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Economic policy, Automobile industry, General Motors Corp., GM, Ford Motor Co., F

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Clean, gas 'diesels'

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Issues are presented concerning the granting of 1-million Australian dollars in federal aid to an engineering company Ecotrans which is converting heavy transport diesel engines to run on liquified petroleum gas.

Services, Environmental aspects, Control, Air pollution, Liquefied petroleum gas, Diesel motor, Diesel engines, Ecotrans-4E Technologies Inc.

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