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The new company would assume 3M's business in wound and oral care, health informatics, and biopharmaceutical filtration. [2] The sales of products in these fields accounted for about a quarter of 3M's total sales in 2021. [3] CEO Mike Roman said that the split would "position 3M for the future, to create more opportunity and greater certainty". [4]
HFS was among the fastest growing companies of its size in the 1990s and the company's stock rose from its IPO price of $4 per share to $77 per share in 1998. In 1993, HFS purchased the Super 8 brand, franchised to 1,000 motels, for $125 million, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and bought the 61-hotel Park Inn brand. [ 9 ]
It is the parent company of several brands including Avis Car Rental, [3] Budget Rent a Car, [4] Budget Truck Rental, Payless Car Rental and Zipcar. [ 5 ] The company also operates several smaller, regional brands including ACL Hire, Apex Car Rentals, [ 6 ] AmicoBlu, France Cars, Maggiore Group, [ 7 ] MoriniRent, TurisCar and TurisPrime.
A conglomerate usually has a parent company that owns and controls many subsidiaries, which are legally independent but financially and strategically dependent on the parent company. Conglomerates are often large and multinational corporations that have a global presence and a diversified portfolio of products and services.
The American Tobacco Company was founded in 1890. In the late 1960s, with health concerns seen as posing an increasing threat to the tobacco business, management decided to diversify into other fields and changed the corporate name to American Brands, Inc. Brown & Williamson acquired the tobacco division in 1994.
The split was structured in a way that SAIC changed its name to Leidos, then spun off the new SAIC as a separate publicly traded company. However, Leidos is the legal successor of the original SAIC and retains SAIC's pre-2013 stock price and corporate filing history. [24]
The company has in recent years focused on its global snacking portfolio, as sales of U.S. cereals have declined with more Americans taking to snacking and relying on fast-food chains for breakfast.
As of February 2024, the largest ever acquisition was the 1999 takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone Airtouch plc at $183 billion ($334.7 billion adjusted for inflation). AT&T appears in these lists the most times with five entries, for a combined transaction value of $311.4 billion. Mergers and acquisitions are notated with the year the ...