Jaguar Cars and Raytheon Aircraft are cooperating on creating a limited-edition airplane that brings Jaguar-like styling to the air.
The companies said Wednesday they plan to sell 12 planes a year for $2.6 million each. The two-propeller plane, which seats eight people including the pilot, was displayed at the North American International Auto Show.
The plane has a leaping cat character on the tail and green-and-gold exterior accents, leather seats and burl walnut paneling.
Moving to Delavan: Ajay Sports will move its Palm Springs, Calif., golf operation to the company's headquarters manufacturing facility in Delavan.
The Wisconsin facility also houses the company's other golf-related subsidiary, Ajay Leisure Products, which sells golf equipment through mass merchants, primarily under the Spalding brand name.
Biggest in Britain: Borders plans to build a ``cultural superstore'' in London's Oxford Street shopping district, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Financial Times said Borders will create the biggest new bookstore to open in Britain in the last 50 years, selling not just books but also compact discs, videos and computer games.
Borders, of Ann Arbor, Mich., has two bookstore cafes in Madison.
Kids' camera: Polaroid Corp. plans to introduce a camera for kids.
Unlike the bulky cameras and expensive film that Polaroid now sells to consumers, the new camera will fit in a child's palm and produce miniature pictures at a price about 60 percent less than full-size Polaroid film, said Ulysses Yannas, an analyst at Mercer, Bokert, Buckman & Reid Inc.
The new kids' camera will sell for about $15, and a 10-pack of the small film will probably retail for less than $4.
Moving to Mexico: Tri-Clover says it will shift production of stainless-steel fittings from its plant in Pleasant Prairie to factories in St. Louis and Guaymas, Mexico, and will eliminate 100 jobs over two years.
Layoffs will begin about the middle of this year.
Dean buys dairy: Dean Foods Co. of Illinois has purchased Maplehurst Dairy of Indianapolis. Maplehurst manufactures and markets a complete line of milk, ice cream and other dairy products, serving retailers in central Indiana, and expects 1997 sales of nearly $70 million.
Giving new meaning to public offering: Romantically inclined investors may soon be able to buy a stake in HDN Inc., which broadcasts a Home Dating Network infomercial in Philadelphia, with plans to expand to other East Coast cities.
The company, based in Wilmington, Del., expects to sell 2 million units at $5 each in an initial public offering, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
