Kiam also owned the firm that made Remington electric shavers, which competed with Gillette products.
Consumer appliances such as electric shavers and coffee makers did better, with sales up 9 percent.
Shavers' winning run had been ended by a first-round defeat to Jerry Quarry in 1973.
Police arrested a high-school student who allegedly had had a beef with Shavers' stepson but shot the wrong guy.
The next day's service, at Fifth African Baptist, was for Dinerral Shavers, 25, a snare drummer with the Hot 8 brass band.
As well as a concussive punch, Shavers possessed the other quality given to the most exciting fighters in history - a suspect chin.
The overflow service ran long with cathartic wails of the young widow and sobbing kids from the school where Shavers was a band teacher.
The amateurs were watched by a galaxy of boxing's elite, including the likes of Roberto Duran, Carlos Zarate and Earnie Shavers, who all presented winners with prizes.
"Earnie Shavers takes no prisoners" was the tag line used in promotion - though Ali preferred to talk about 'The Acorn', in reference to his opponent's shaved dome.
The slower growth that scared Wall Street last year was caused partly by Gillette's decision to run down stocks of its Sensor and Atra shavers ahead of this week's launch.
Heymann began his career in his native city of Frankfurt, as an export advertising and promotion manager for Max Braun AG, a manufacturer of audio equipment, household appliances and electric shavers.
It is all a far cry from the time when Shavers was one of the most-feared men from a heavyweight era that also included the likes of George Foreman, Ron Lyle, Ken Norton and Joe Frazier.
Despite the thousands of people who will probably buy its electronic shavers as Christmas presents this year, electronics behemoth Philips Electronics is cautious about its sales in the fourth quarter in the midst of lingering economic uncertainty.
We've seen this "advanced" technology in elementary gizmos like electric toothbrushes and shavers for decades, but it wasn't until 2009 when companies like Palm and Powermat began generating a fair amount of public interest for some of our everyday devices.
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