Smart Co-Founder Hayek Dies

Diesel Bombers · 2010-06-28 20:50:17

http://images.thecarconnection.com/tmb/smart_100313909_t.gif One of the founders of the Smart brand has died. Nicolas Hayek, the chairman and founder of Swatch Group, passed away in Switzerland at 82, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hayek led the company that reinvented the Swiss watch (conflated into "Swatch") with an inexpensive, stylish range of plastic timepieces. But Hayek also was pivotal in the...http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l1J6nzSM-w9kdg-rv2jD2JIQ3-0/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l1J6nzSM-w9kdg-rv2jD2JIQ3-0/0/da) http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l1J6nzSM-w9kdg-rv2jD2JIQ3-0/1/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/l1J6nzSM-w9kdg-rv2jD2JIQ3-0/1/da) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?i=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?a=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:V_sGLiPBpWU) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?a=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?i=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?a=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:gIN9vFwOqvQ) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?d=TzevzKxY174 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?a=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:TzevzKxY174) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?d=7Q72WNTAKBA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheCarConnection?a=dgI2bVinB9Q:D03xyqQoDNc:7Q72WNTAKBA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheCarConnection/~4/dgI2bVinB9Q More... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCarConnection/~3/dgI2bVinB9Q/1046594_smart-co-founder-hayek-dies)

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Smart Co-Founder Hayek Dies

One of the founders of the Smart brand has died. Nicolas Hayek, the chairman and founder of Swatch Group, passed away in Switzerland at 82, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hayek led the company that reinvented the Swiss watch (conflated into "Swatch") with an inexpensive, stylish range of plastic timepieces. But Hayek also was pivotal in the...