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- <text id=89TT1060>
- <title>
- Apr. 24, 1989: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 24, 1989 The Rat Race
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 54
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Shedding an Old Skin
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- <p> 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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- </body></article>
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