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Success story: Jurgen Schemmer, owner of Willowdale-base Sonora Cosmetics Inc., shows some of the beauty kits his company manufactures.
Success story: Jurgen Schemmer, owner of Willowdale-base Sonora Cosmetics Inc., shows some of the beauty kits his company manufactures.

Success story: Jurgen Schemmer, owner of Willowdale-base Sonora Cosmetics Inc., shows some of the beauty kits his company manufactures.

Date3/29/1986
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0133393F
Make-up-man: Jurgen Schemmer of Sonora Cosemitcs Inc. says his firm's sales are booming.
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Art Ehara: Suzuki Canada Inc. president shows off one of his company's four-wheel-drive utility vehicles, to go on sale in Eastern Canada next month. Base price for cheapest Suzuki vehicle is $6,594. Engine is smaller than on some motorcycles.
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Rainer Moeller. Sells do-it-yourself divorce kits
Rainer Moeller. Sells do-it-yourself divorce kits
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Where do you start? Rory Jan, 24, who has helped people build microcomputers from kits for 2 years at the U of T, sits by assembled and unassembled parts of an Apple clone
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Top business spokesman J. Hugh Stevens stands in front of mammoth wire spool at Laird Dr. plant of Canada Wire and Cable Co. Ltd., of which he's chief executive. Stevens, who today became persident of the Canadian Manufactures Association says companies must become more competitive to create more jobs.
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In good hands: Canadian cosmetics success Lise Walter is embarking on an ambitious expansion plan
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