New moniker: General Cinema Corp. is changing its name to Harcourt General Inc., the company announced Friday at its annual meeting. Robert J. Tarr Jr., the firm’s president and chief executive ...

General Cinema Corp. agreed to sell its soft drink bottling business to PepsiCo Inc. for $1.75 billion in cash, reviving a deal that had nearly been scuttled by tax concerns. Chicago White Sox ...

Richard A. Smith, chief executive of General Cinema Corp., in 1979 was eager to invest in a satellite-TV venture. Since he was the boss and his family owned around a third of the company ...

WEST HILLS — General Cinema Corp. closed its 10-screen theater complex at the Fallbrook Mall on Thursday as part of a nationwide cutback, a company spokesman said. The theater complex ...

The insurance division is an Orlando-based subsidiary of General Cinema Corp., the Chestnut Hill, Mass., company that purchased Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. last year. HBJ has 1,500 employees in ...

General Cinema Corp. will allow Chairman Robert Tarr to cash in his remaining 88,800 restricted shares to pay state and federal taxes. The Chestnut Hill, Mass., operator of movie theaters and ...

General Cinema Corp. has announced a May 22 opening date for its eight-screen movie theater at Towson Commons, the $70 million development that will include retail shops and 190,000 square feet of ...

General Cinema Corp. movie theaters, one of several theater companies showing the preview for “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” will not issue refunds to people who go to theaters ...

TORONTO (CBS.MW) -- Leveraged buyout firm Onex Corp. said Wednesday that it and Oaktree Capital Management have agreed to buy General Cinema Theatres, a move that will increase their presence in ...