Wallace's innovations, such as changing the company's focus to produce competitively priced, value-for-money vehicles, were not immediately embraced by the Mazda rank-and-file.

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In the 1990s, the McCain family feuded publicly when Wallace wanted his son Michael to take control of the company, while Harrison favored bringing in outside executives.

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Chicken Run featured the voices of Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and was the first full-length film to be made by Bristol-based Aardman Animations - best known for its Wallace and Gromit films - with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company.

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And Mazda brought in innovative outside managers, including Scottish finance expert Henry Wallace who in 1996 became the first foreign CEO of any major Japanese company.

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The second revolution, as Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote in New York magazine, was the idea that a company's purpose is to make money for shareholders.

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Brendan Wallace, co-founder of a Facebook app called "Identified" that provides career networking, said his company aims to build up a repository of data.

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