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<text id=91TT0565>
<title>
Mar. 18, 1991: Business Notes:Acquisitions
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 18, 1991 A Moment To Savor
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 69
Business Notes
ACQUISITIONS
A New Face At Revlon?
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<p> When Manhattan financier Ronald Perelman bought control of
Revlon in a decidedly hostile 1985 takeover, he promised the
treatment usually offered to the beauty behemoth's customers--a complete make-over. In the years following the death of
founder Charles Revson, the legendary line's earnings and stock
price had faded faster than a bad dye job. Perelman
re-established Revlon as an industry leader by focusing on its
best-known products: cosmetics.
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<p> Despite Revlon's about-face, Perelman is said to be looking
for a new owner for all or part of his cosmetics kingdom,
spurred by that ghost from the good times: debt. The company
still bears an uncomfortably heavy $2.1 billion of liabilities
from the original buyout and more recent, high-profile
acquisitions like Max Factor and Almay. Rumored shoppers
include Paris-based L'Oreal and Cincinnati's Procter & Gamble.
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