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- BUSINESS, Page 54Business NotesENTERTAINMENTShedding an Old Skin
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- What do Consolidated Cigar and the Richmond Screw Anchor Co.
- have in common? Both were once owned by the quintessential
- conglomerate of the 1960s: Gulf & Western. The diverse mix of
- businesses proved so unmanageable by the early 1980s that G&W
- Chairman Martin Davis launched a campaign to spin off more than
- 100 subsidiaries. Last week the company once known as Engulf &
- Devour said it will sell one of its few remaining divisions,
- Associates First Capital Corp., a financial services company.
- Davis hopes to use the estimated $3 billion in proceeds to
- assemble a world-class media and entertainment giant. The
- restructured company, which already owns Paramount Pictures and
- Simon & Schuster/Prentice-Hall, will be renamed Paramount
- Communications.
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