BUSINESS
April 24, 1998 | Bloomberg News
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. agreed to buy most of Home Interiors & Gifts Inc. for $920 million, betting that the company can become one of the nation's largest direct-sales marketers. Hicks Muse said the acquisition, for $170 million in cash, $275 million in equity and $475 million in assumed debt, will give the closely held investment firm about 65% of Home Interiors, which had 1997 sales of $468 million. It sells products nationwide through about 48,000 independent representatives.
BUSINESS
October 18, 1996 | Times Staff and Wire Reports
Partnership to Buy Triad: A partnership led by Dallas-based Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. said it will buy Triad Systems Corp., a maker of computer systems for auto parts and hardware stores, in a deal worth $300 million. Hicks, Muse and its partner, Cooperative Computing Inc., said they will begin a direct offer to Triad shareholders of about $181.2 million. The offer represents a 68% premium over Triad's closing price Wednesday of $5.50 a share. Triad shares surged $4 to $9.50 on Nasdaq.
BUSINESS
August 13, 1997 | Bloomberg News
Buyout firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. agreed to buy LIN Television Corp., the nation's 22nd-largest TV group, for about $1.7 billion, or $47.50 a share, in cash, the companies said. That is more than 2% below LIN's closing share price of $48.63, up 75 cents, on Nasdaq. Providence, R.I.-based LIN owns and operates eight network-affiliated TV stations; its flagship station is KXAS, the NBC affiliate in Dallas. LIN was formed in December 1994 as a spinoff from LIN Broadcasting Corp. AT&T Corp.
BUSINESS
September 13, 1997 | Bloomberg News
NBC and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. are reportedly in talks about forming a partnership that would own two television stations and forge long-term ties between the top-rated network and one of the nation's biggest station owners. NBC would contribute its station in San Diego and an undisclosed amount of cash and debt to the partnership, said people familiar with the transaction.
BUSINESS
August 7, 1999 | Times Wire Services
Monsanto Co. said it had agreed to sell for an undisclosed amount of cash its cotton seed business to the Dallas-based buyout firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc., a move that may clear the way for Monsanto to complete its long-pending acquisition of cotton seed breeder Delta & Pine Land Co. In May, a year after St. Louis-based Monsanto and Delta & Pine agreed to merge, Delta's directors voted to extend the time frame for completing the deal to Dec.
BUSINESS
October 23, 1997 | From Bloomberg News
LIN Television Corp. accepted a sweetened offer of $1.9 billion from the Dallas-based investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. The move comes one day after Raycom Media Inc. had raised its bid for the Providence-based broadcaster to $1.7 billion. Hicks Muse will pay $55 a share in cash, or about $250 million more than it first bid in August. Hicks Muse plans to use LIN's eight stations and management as the foundation for an effort to become one of the nation's largest station owners.