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BHP later replaced Burmah, and with Shell, each became a 40% shareholder in Woodside in 1985. [7] BHP reduced its shareholding to 10% in July 1990. [8] In October 1994, BHP sold its remaining shares while Shell sold down to 34%. [9] In 1995, Woodside moved its head office from Melbourne to Perth. [10]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Shares in BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum fell on Wednesday as investors on both sides raised questions about the value of the Perth-based oil and gas group's proposed $29 ...
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BHP Billiton (West Australian Iron Ore Assets) Rio Tinto (West Australian Iron Ore Assets) 116.0 164.7 Mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton abandoned a controversial merger of their Australian iron ore operations after anti-competition complaints from regulators and top customers including China. [441] 12 1999 MCI WorldCom: Sprint: 111.0 203
Ravensthorpe cost BHP US$3.6 billion in write-downs when it was shut in January 2009 after less than a year of production. [58] In January 2010, following the BHP Billiton purchase of Athabasca Potash for US$320m, The Economist reported that, by 2020, BHP Billiton could produce approximately 15 per cent of the world demand for potash. [59]
BHP Billiton (BHP), the world's largest mining company, warned that it is not willing to buy Potash Corp (POT) "at any cost." CEO Marius Kloppers made the warning after announcing bumper profits ...
A horizontal merger combines direct competitors in the same products and markets, while a vertical merger combines suppliers and the company or customers and the company. Pac-Man Defense A strategy of survival in the takeover game, named after a popular game in the US in the early 1980s, in which a character which does not swallow its opponents ...
Under the historical cost basis of accounting, assets and liabilities are recorded at their values when first acquired. They are not then generally restated for changes in values. Costs recorded in the Income Statement are based on the historical cost of items sold or used, rather than their replacement costs.