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WDET radio personalities
Robert Jones and Matt Watroba
will perform a benefit concert
from 4-6 p.m. May 14 at the Shirt
Box in Southfield. Patrons are
asked to bring new or used chil-
dren's books which will be do-
nated to area hospitals and
shelters.
The Shirt Box is located at
19011 West Ten Mile Road, be-
tween Southfield and Evergreen.
For further information on the
concert or to donate a book, call
the Shirt Box at 352-1080.
GROUND has been broken
for the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration's $13 million
Detroit Field Division head-
quarters at 431 Howard in down-
town Detroit, site of the R.L. Polk
Co. for more than 80 years. The
three-story DEA structure is be-
ing developed by the Farbman
Group.
MEMBERS and guests pre-
sent 60-second "commercials"
about their businesses during the
weekly meetings of the South-
field chapter of the Business
Network. In addition to the one-
minute talks, one member pro-
vides more in-depth information
about his or her firm in a 10-to-
15-minute presentation.
Meetings are held at 7 a.m.
Tuesdays at Jacques Demers
Restaurant in the Embassy
Suites Hotel. For further infor-
mation, call Allan Schultz at 730-
2000.
SPACE is still available at a
seminar on charitable giving op-
portunities for insurance and fi-
nance professionals sponsored by
the Federated Endowment Fund
of the Jewish Federation.
Steve Stein
The workshop will be held
May 3 beginning at 8:30 at the
Max M. Fisher Building. A
continental breakfast will be
served. For further information,
call the Federated Endowment
Fund office at 642-4260,
ext. 206.
ONE-ON-ONE private ses-
sions with image consultant Peg
Treacy are offered by the Con-
tinuum Center of Oakland Uni-
versity. For an afternoon or
evening appointment, call 370-
3030 or 1-800-370-3042.
The center is repeating its
seminar on "How To Design and
Present a Training Workshop"
from 7-10 p.m. May 4 on campus.
For further information, call 370-
3030 or 1-800-370-3042.
CONTRACTORS and sub-
contractors are invited to attend
a free "1994 Government Con-
tracts Update" sponsored by the
Dykema Gossett law firm.
The seminar Will be held from
1-4:30 p.m. May 10 at the Radis-
son Plaza Hotel in Southfield. For
further information, call Linda
DeKeyser at 568-5311.
ATTENTION inventors. Eu-
gene Rivin, Wayne State Uni-
versity professor of mechanical
engineering, will present a sem-
inar titled "How to Invent: A
Three-Day, Hands-On Workshop
and Consulting Presentation"
May 4-7 at Wayne State's College
of Engineering.
Mr. Rivin and his colleagues
will explain an algorithmic
method based on the Theory of
Inventive Problem Solving (or
TRIZ, its acronym in Russia,
where it was developed). For fur-
ther information, call 577-3759
or 577-3881.
CENTURY 21 Sakmar & As-
sociates of Rochester will be mov-
ing into the city's renovated fire
hall, renamed the Ann Building.
It will occupy 4,300 square feet
in its new office, triple its current
space.
MOSAIC, INC. of Royal Oak
has established a public relations
and marketing division, called
the Mosaic Marketing Group, to
add to its video and print pro-
duction services.
A PURE WHITE Lamborgh-
ini Countach and a parade car
built for Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin are among more than 400
vehicles which will be up for sale
at the Michigan International
Classic Car Auction April 29
through May 1 at the Novi Expo
Centre.
Organizers say the event is the
largest indoor collector car show
and auction in the Midwest.
Doors will open at 4 p.m. April
29 and 9 a.m. April 30 and May
1. The sale will run until 11 p.m.
April 29 and April 30 and 6 p.m.
May 1.
For further information, call
Mike Fairbairn or Bill Howitt at
459-3311.
THE FORMER Elias Brown
General Store at Greenfield Vil-
lage has reopened as the J.R.
Jones General Store. The build-
ing had been closed since Janu-
ary 1992 for conservation work
and research.
James R. Jones owned the
store, located in Waterford, from
1882-1888. The store appears
like it would have in 1886, when
Mr. Jones had the only operating
telephone in town. ❑
They're Accountable
Big Six' firms on their way to Israel.
ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
he "Big Six" are coming to Floating a company on any major
Israel, and bringing with stock exchange without an as-
them a change that is ex- sessment by a Big Six firm is rel-
pected to transform the atively rare.
Last month, for the first time,
world of certified public accoun-
an accounting firm in Israel, Yi-
tants.
The Big Six are the vast, mul- gal Brightman and Co., signed on
ti-national accountancy firms that the dotted line committing itself
dominate the international fi- to becoming the Israeli "member
nancial markets, controlling 95 firm" of Deloitte and Touche, one
percent of the global market, ac- of the Big Six. The occasion was
celebrated formally on April 20,
cording to Globes magazine.
In every country they enter, when the chief executive officer of
they dominate. In Germany, Deloitte and Touche visited.
Already, Brightman has made
Canada,
Japan and Britain, the Big Six concrete moves toward its inte-
do more than 83 percent of the ac- gration
with the international firm:
counting, the magazine said.
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Two weeks ago the company
dropped its local insurer in favor
of participating in the insurance
of Deloitte and Touche.
The other five of the six —
Arthur Andersen, Price Water-
house, Ernst and Young, KPMG
and Coopers & Lybrand — are not
far behind. All of them are in
stages of communication with
large firms in Israel, ranging from
casual flirtation to serious negoti-
ations. Within a year, those with-
in the industry predict, all six will
have hooked up with local coun-
terparts.
The accounta.,
rife with speculation over which
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