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- BUSINESS, Page 57Business NotesTYCOONSOrder to Go: One Big Pie
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- Ever since 1960, when Tom Monaghan opened his first pizza
- outlet in Ypsilanti, Mich., the eccentric tycoon has been
- expanding his empire like a spinning wheel of pizza dough. But
- now that his Domino's chain has 5,100 stores and sales of $2.3
- billion, Monaghan is suddenly ready to move on. In a letter to
- employees and franchise owners, the pizza king disclosed that
- he is looking for ways to sell Domino's.
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- Monaghan has been besieged by recent controversies ranging
- from his donations to antiabortion groups to the allegedly
- reckless driving of his pizza-delivery drivers. But he says that
- his plan to "minimize my involvement" springs from his desire
- to spend more time on his charitable avocations. One holding
- that is not for sale: the Detroit Tigers baseball team, which
- the fan bought six years ago.
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