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- <text id=89TT3166>
- <title>
- Dec. 04, 1989: Business Notes:Divestitures
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 69
- Business Notes
- DIVESTITURES
- Lightening The Load
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- <p> In the first major sale of assets since Time Inc. acquired
- Warner Communications last July, the merged company agreed last
- week to shed a subsidiary that had turned out to be a
- disappointing performer. Time Warner said it will sell its
- Illinois-based textbook publishing unit, Scott, Foresman, for
- $455 million to Harper & Row Publishers, which is owned by media
- baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. When it bought Scott, Foresman
- in 1986, Time paid $520 million and assumed $50 million in debt.
- Time Warner's losses on the Scott, Foresman investment will
- total $175 million, which will be written off in the fourth
- quarter.
- </p>
- <p> Time Warner had decided that the textbook division failed
- to fit well with its other publishing and entertainment
- businesses. At the same time, the sale will help reduce the $12
- billion in debt that the company will assume when its merger is
- completed, sometime around year's end.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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