Article: TLC Beatrice To Liquidate

PETER ALAN HARPER, AP Business Writer
AP Online
05-27-1999
TLC Beatrice To Liquidate

NEW YORK (AP) -- TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc., once the nation's largest black-owned company, is being liquidated as part of an evolving strategy begun following the death of its founder Reginald Lewis six years ago.

The liquidation plan, announced Thursday along with the sale of its Spanish soft drink division, is expected to return a healthy profit for investors and the Lewis family, the company said.

That's in line with the long-term goal to generate shareholder wealth that Lewis set when he bought the company in 1987 in a $985 million leveraged buyout, said his widow Loida Nicolas Lewis -- ...

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