The five per cent stake acquisition would be subject to statutory approvals and respective board approvals, the company added. Earlier, Deccan Chronicle was reported to be in the lookout for selling 5 to 8 per cent in Sieger Solutions, the owner of the Deccan Chargers IPL team to a strategic investor.
The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of more than 120 jobs at the Boston Globe. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising finance will be outsourced to India.
Quoting the company's Chief Financial Officer James M Follo, the report said real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield has been retained to act as its agent to secure financing, 'either in the form of a mortgage or a sale-leaseback arrangement'. The report said that the company's portion of the building is not currently mortgaged.
The deal, the Times says, would come as the Times Company moves to raise money amid flagging advertising sales and approaching deadlines to pay back hundreds of millions of dollars of debt over the next two years. The company has put its stake in the Boston Red Sox up for sale and said last year that it would borrow as much as $225 million against its new headquarters in Manhattan through a sale-leaseback agreement.
The story of gloom and doom continues to haunt the US economy. With advertising revenue going downhill, two of US newspaper majors -- The New York Times and The Washington Post -- plan another round of pay cuts and layoffs. Facing financial difficulties, the New York Times Company has imposed five per cent temporary pay cut for most employees and laid off 100 workers.
The Boston Globe has been looking for $20 million in labour concessions, including about $10 million from the Boston Newspaper Guild, the largest union that represents Globe employees. Negotiations between The New York Times Company and the Boston Newspaper Guild over concessions that could avert the closure of The Boston Globe apparently reached Sunday's midnight deadline without a deal.
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