Article: Hungry Minds to be Acquired by John Wiley.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001

Hungry Minds, Inc. (Nasdaq: HMIN) announced today it has reached a definitive agreement to sell all of the outstanding shares of the company to John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for an aggregate consideration of $182.5MM.

Under terms of the agreement, John Wiley will make a $6.09 per share cash tender offer, for all of Hungry Minds' approximately 14.8 million outstanding shares plus the retirement of $92.5MM in outstanding debt as required by the Company's current forbearance agreement with its bank syndicate. The transaction is expected to finalize around mid-September, subject to ...

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