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- <text id=91TT2287>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: Business Notes:Alliances
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- ALLIANCES
- Now They're Talking
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Time Warner's long courtship with potential foreign partners
- may finally be leading to an alliance. Last week two Japanese
- giants, electronics maker Toshiba and the trading concern C.
- Itoh, confirmed that they are negotiating to make an investment
- in the U.S. entertainment and communications company. In the
- deal currently being discussed, the Japanese corporations would
- invest $500 million each for a 12% share of a new Time Warner
- subsidiary that would bring together the company's movie, cable
- and TV-programming businesses.
- </p>
- <p> The new Time Warner entity would assume as much as $7
- billion of the $8.7 billion that remains of the bank debt the
- corporation took on when Time Inc. and Warner Communications
- merged in 1990. The potential partners see other benefits as
- well. Toshiba could provide cable-TV hardware to Time Warner,
- while C. Itoh could gain distribution rights for the U.S.
- company's entertainment products in Japan and other countries.
- Negotiators said the deal could take weeks to complete. But
- expectations about an imminent alliance were fanned by the
- arrival in Japan last week of Time Warner chairman Steve Ross,
- who was attending the Tokyo Film Festival. Even if the Japanese
- alliance is formed, Time Warner says it plans to continue
- exploring strategic partnerships in Europe as well.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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