Jovanovich
47/5 Pages « ‹ [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] › » - More than three-quarters of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.'s $200 million face value 6 3/8% debentures were tendered for conversion into common stock prior to the record date for a special dividend, a Harcourt attorney said. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- The dust jacket of Mort Rosenblum's book on French culture and the French, "Mission to Civilize" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 470 pages, $19.95), displays a superb drawing by the cartoonist Sempe. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Year-earlier results were restated to reflect the company's sale of its book publishing division last year to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. said its HBJ Parks unit laid off 750 full-time employees in a "belt-tightening" move, reducing the unit's 7,500-worker staff by 10%. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Last year, for example, Mr. Baeza devised the ESOP that was the centerpiece of the $3.5 billion recapitalization plan Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. adopted to fend off a hostile takeover attempt from British publisher Robert Maxwell. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich rose 1 to 7 1/4 on volume of nearly a million shares. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Jovanovich will be succeeded as chairman by former U.S. energy secretary John S. Herrington, 51, who has been on the board of directors for a year. ( Quelle: AP )
- Mr. Edgell, who will leave Harcourt shortly to head a new company that has agreed to buy Harcourt's magazine unit and its school supplier, said Mr. Jovanovich expressed his frustrations in recent conversations. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- And while Mr. Maxwell is a Socialist, Mr. Jovanovich's own rags-to-riches background has made him a "full-blooded capitalist," says one acquaintance. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- In response, William Jovanovich, chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., Sea World's parent company, ordered trainers out of the water during shows and fired three executives. ( Quelle: AP 1988 )