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You may never have heard of him, but if you've bought a home, rented a car or stayed in a hotel recently, you have probably encountered the handiwork of a high-powered, low-profile tycoon named Henry Silverman. Once a top Wall Street dealmaker, Silverman now runs a superfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALMAKER HENRY SILVERMAN: HFS STANDS FOR GROWTH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Silverman, 56, has in fact been assembling a new kind of empire, one consisting of a loose confederation of brands in related services--rental cars and hotels, real estate and mortgages--that can reach consumers at home, at work or at play. In pursuit of that strategy, HFS last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALMAKER HENRY SILVERMAN: HFS STANDS FOR GROWTH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Nowhere has Silverman displayed contrarian instincts more clearly than in the slo-mo rental-car business, from which U.S. automakers have been peeling away as fast as they can (see box). Yet Silverman gladly paid $800 million last year for No. 2 Avis, a global brand that he views as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALMAKER HENRY SILVERMAN: HFS STANDS FOR GROWTH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

In the Avis deal, HFS backed into a public relations nightmare almost immediately, after civil rights lawyers last year filed a discrimination suit that accused an Avis licensee of refusing to rent to black customers in North and South Carolina. Avis moved to drop the licensee, began a review of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALMAKER HENRY SILVERMAN: HFS STANDS FOR GROWTH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Believe me, I do. But Jackson and the N.A.A.C.P. are right to keep the heat on until Bijur also agrees to a specific plan to increase minority ownership of service stations and do more business with minority-owned companies. Texaco's record so far does not inspire great faith--and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXACO'S HIGH-OCTANE RACISM PROBLEMS | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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