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Tribune bid put at $33 a share
Chicago billionaire Sam Zell's bid for Chicago-based Tribune Co. is valued at roughly $33 per share, a clear premium for a company that has been buffeted by new media challengers, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. Investment bankers...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Career and Workplace, New York, Tribune Company, California
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Altria Group To Buy UST, Inc.
Altria Group Inc. said Monday it will buy UST Inc. for nearly $10 billion in a deal that will give the maker of Marlboro cigarettes access to the smokeless tobacco market with the Skoal and Copenhagen brands. Richmond, Va.-based Altria said it...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Altria Group, Inc., Companies and Corporations, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Management Change
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Weaker earnings keep heat on Tribune
Tribune Co.'s second-quarter earnings report on Thursday didn't provide much respite from what is turning out to be a long, hot summer for Dennis FitzSimons, the media company's embattled chairman and chief executive. Tribune profit and revenue fell,...Tags: Newspapers, Phil Rosenthal, Family, Chicago Cubs, California
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Tribune buyback to move forward
Tribune staff reportersAfter weeks of infighting and boardroom intrigue over a controversial $2.5 billion stock buyback plan, Tribune Co. announced Tuesday that it will repurchase 45 million of its shares for $32.50 each. That number, which represents 15 percent of the...Tags: Newspapers, Jerry Paul, Family, Chicago Tribune, T. Rowe Price
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Pension reform clear in 1 regard: It will be costly
Tribune staff reporterThere's an ongoing joke among certified public accountants that tax reform--which is generally done in the name of simplification--is always good for their business. The irony, of course, is that you would think reform would put CPAs out of work--...Tags: Gail MarksJarvis, Interior Policy, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Merck & Company Incorporated
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Tribune Co. disagreements called `constructive'
Bloomberg NewsDisagreements over Tribune Co.'s future are ``a constructive dialogue'' and should help drive the stock price higher, said John Rogers, whose Ariel Capital Management Inc. is Tribune's third-largest shareholder. Tribune's failure to buy back all of the...Tags: Stock Broking, Satellite and Cable Service, NYSE Euronext, Inc., New York, Tribune Company
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Dispute may put Tribune in play
When Dennis FitzSimons, the chairman and chief executive of Tribune Co., announced a $2 billion stock buyback on May 30, he was confident that the stock's value would rise. He just wasn't counting on it moving this quickly. Tribune shares surged 4.2...Tags: Family, State Budgets, Tribune Company, Chicago Real Estate, Politics
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Tribune chief not retreating
Tribune staff reportersWhen Tribune Co. Chief Executive Dennis FitzSimons made the decision in late May to move ahead with a restructuring plan vehemently opposed by his second-largest shareholder, he took up a fight that may end up defining his career. The private battle went...Tags: Family, Chicago Tribune, State Budgets, New York, Tribune Company
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Given options, Tribune could rewrite script
Even those of us who haven't seen the new Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston movie "The Break Up" have found it impossible to avoid hearing about it. Apparently they play a mismatched couple who own Chicago property together. With their romance on the rocks,...Tags: Stock Options, CBS Corp., Jennifer Aniston, Property, Time Warner Inc.
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`Key guy' in Tribune fight
Behind the public rift between the management of Tribune Co. and the Chandler family that founded Times Mirror Co., a little-known person with a big impact has become a subject of intense interest and quiet controversy. In the feud over the future of...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, David Greising, Family, Satellite and Cable Service, State Budgets
Oct 7, 2007
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Aug 27, 2006
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Jun 29, 2006
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Jun 9, 2006
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Jun 11, 2006
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Jan 14, 2007
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Jun 9, 2006
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Jun 22, 2006
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