Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sultry first Friday of summer, and office workers in Manhattan were streaming out of the city to start their weekend. Not so at the headquarters of Paramount Communications, formerly Gulf & Western, where the company's 14-member board of directors was making a high-stakes decision. Just 30 minutes after trading closed on the New York Stock Exchange, Paramount announced that it was increasing its hostile bid for Time Inc. from $175 a share to $200, thus raising its total offer from $10.7 billion to more than $12 billion...
...move was calculated to turn up the heat on Time, which had rejected Paramount's initial bid two weeks ago and instead pressed ahead with its planned merger with Warner Communications. To that end, Time and Warner on June 16 converted their original debt-free stock swap into a leveraged takeover bid in which Time would buy Warner for a total of up to $14 billion in cash and securities, a step that, among other things, eliminated the need for the deal to be approved by Time stockholders...
...letter last week announcing the upgraded offer to Richard Munro, chairman of Time, Paramount Chairman Martin Davis said he hoped "that your board and management will now discontinue your efforts to preclude stockholder choice and give Time's shareholders an opportunity to consider our offer." Time promised to consider the new bid "in due course" and advised its stockholders "not to act on the offer until they hear from Time...
...share offer is certain to be welcomed by money managers and shareholders who had chafed at Time's rejection of the original Paramount bid. Said Paul Kagan, head of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based firm that follows the media industry: "It will be very hard for management to tell stockholders that they can't have the $200. This is a large price for Time stockholders who have waited a long while for prices to approximate the real value of their stock." Time shares closed Friday at 165 7/8, up 10 1/2 for the day, in response to leaked reports...
...company rejects Paramount's hostile takeover bid and refashions its agreement to acquire Warner in a deal that could ultimately cost $14 billion and create a heavy load of debt...