issue 1 - Roland Berger
issue 1 - Roland Berger
issue 1 - Roland Berger
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p business culture<br />
vip entrepreneurs<br />
CLINT EASTWOOD, born in 1930, worked as a lumberjack<br />
and piano player before being discovered for a role in<br />
a TV series. With the earnings from his first movies, he founded<br />
the Malpaso film production company. Eastwood, known<br />
for tightly sticking to schedules and film budgets, has no difficulties<br />
finding business partners—for golf apparel brands,<br />
golf courses, hotels and spa resorts.<br />
GÉRARD DEPARDIEU is a symbol of French cinema and recipient of<br />
numerous international awards, including a Golden Globe for “Green Card,”<br />
which co-starred Andie MacDowell. Born in 1948, the Frenchman is not<br />
only a wine connoisseur, but is also becoming a large-scale winemaker.<br />
Today, Depardieu owns and manages vineyards all over the world.<br />
ERIC CLAPTON, 59, is considered one of the best blues<br />
guitarists in the world. The eight-time Grammy Award winner<br />
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame no less than<br />
three times: with The Yardbirds in 1992, with Cream in 1994<br />
and as a solo artist in 2000. Since he refused to buy his shirts<br />
anywhere else, he saved the English menswear store Cordings<br />
from bankruptcy.<br />
Good nose for business<br />
Stars have achieved everything on stage and screen, and now business is luring them in.<br />
A well-known name is no guarantee for success, however. Instincts must go hand in hand with<br />
good business sense, as in the case of Clint Eastwood, Eric Clapton and Gérard Depardieu.<br />
:<br />
He holds a golf club more often than a<br />
revolver. Clint Eastwood, the 74-yearold<br />
veteran of Western movies, has been<br />
driving golf balls down fairways for more<br />
than 50 years and has a 10 handicap. Golf<br />
is more than a recreational activity for the<br />
Oscar winner (“Unforgiven”). Together<br />
with fashion designer Nancy Hale, he<br />
founded golf apparel brand Tehama in<br />
1997, which is one of the most successful<br />
clothing brand names in the United States<br />
today. Designed in the spirit of the 1940s,<br />
Tehama sportswear brings in $30 million<br />
for Eastwood and for two years in a row<br />
the lifestyle magazine Robb Report voted<br />
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