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Business News
| LDS Church Member's Preparedness Business Faces Life After Y2 |
| LDS Church member Scott Sperry's business, Preparedness
Resources, Inc., made a killing on Y2K publicity, its sales increasing
by 1,200% last year. But now, with the Y2K problem being called a bust,
Sperry is facing a possible disaster as customers may feel duped and
sales shrink from hype levels. |
| Deseret Book expanding in traditional and nontraditional fields |
| Deseret Book's merger last year with former rival
Bookcraft finally caught the attention of Publisher's Weekly, the
largest trade magazine for the book publishing industry in the U.S. PW,
as it is known, says that Deseret Book is trying to meet the challenge
of a growing U.S. market for "wisdom-based literature," and has expanded
following the merger, instead of contracting like happens in most
mergers. |
| LDS Church had 1,650 Real Estate Transactions in New Jersey |
| A conversion glitch in updating 2.5 million Middlesex County property records highlighted religious real estate purchases
in the county from 1946 to 1972. In the process, 1,650 transactions involving the New Jersey Stake (until 1967 only Stake in New Jersey) came to
light. |
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