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Wood River Oil and Refining Company was renamed Koch Industries in 1968 in honor of Fred Koch, the year after his death. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] At that time, it was primarily an engineering firm with a 35% interest in Great Northern Oil Company, which owned the Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota, a crude oil-gathering system in Oklahoma, [ 16 ] and some ...
The Koch family (/ k oʊ k / KOHK) is an American family engaged in business, best known for their political activities and their control of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately owned company in the United States (with 2019 revenues of $115 billion). [1]
The company was given the trademarked name INVISTA and was then sold to privately owned Koch Industries on April 30, 2004 for US$4.2 billion. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Koch Industries combined the newly acquired organization with their KoSa subsidiary to complete the INVISTA company.
OCI Global says it sold the Iowa Fertilizer Co. to a Koch Industries company for $3.6 billion. The deal is subject to federal antitrust review before it can close, the companies say.
Koch Industries purchased a controlling interest in the plant in 1969. [4] Since then, capacity has grown more than tenfold. As of 2001, Minnesotans were using a total of 7.2 million US gallons (27,000 m 3 ) of gasoline per day, and fuel use continues to climb in the region by about 2% annually. [ 5 ]
Leonard traces the history of Koch Industries from a regional pipeline company to a sprawling corporate entity with "a political-influence machine of rare scope". [1] The first part of is devoted to the history of Koch Industries, beginning with Charles Koch's assumption of leadership after the death of his father Fred in 1967. It traces the ...
The author of a new investigative book on the Koch brothers reveals what he learned about how business really works in America.
Fred Chase Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the ...