Bus' glass is half full: Ex-New Yorker turns glass factory around

Dec 09, 1999
By J. Michael Lyons

LIVANI - Soon after workers at the Livanu Stikls glass factory pass through the rickety security turnstiles - remnants of less profitable days - a sidewalk leads them through a manicured lawn dotted with curving sculptures that stand in stark contrast to the rust-streaked factory.The sculptures, the lawn and most of the workers would not be there if not for a brewer's grandson named Imants Bus.Bus, who has turned the dim hopes of the foundering post-Soviet company into marketing plans and expo ...

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