Word: chevron
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...contest has already pushed the price for RJR Nabisco above $20 billion, which means that the potential buyout would dwarf the largest previous takeover, the $13.3 billion acquisition of Gulf by Chevron in 1984. The megastakes battle has taken the starch out of corporate chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially...
...food conglomerate. (Among its top brands: Winston cigarettes, Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Life Savers candy.) The RJR executives, with the help of the Shearson Lehman Hutton investment firm, hope to borrow close to $16 billion to finance the deal. If the transaction is completed, it would eclipse Chevron's $13.3 billion acquisition of Gulf Oil in 1984 as the largest takeover ever...
...million drop reflects the fact that Harvard decided during the previous fiscal year to sell its holdings in six companies--Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, Royal Dutch Petroleum, Ford Motors and Phelps Dodge. The CCSR announced that decision last year...
...Saudi Arabia's. Last week twelve companies demonstrated their faith in the value of the finite resource by bidding a combined $7.3 billion for the oil and natural-gas assets of Houston-based Tenneco, which is selling those properties to concentrate on its gas-pipeline and construction- equipment businesses. Chevron agreed to pay $2.6 billion for the firm's stakes in the Gulf of Mexico, while T. Boone Pickens' firm, Mesa Limited Partnership, will pay $715 million for Tenneco's midcontinent reserves...
...rest of the funding came from theassociates of the Harvard International EnergyProgram, a group of donors which includes Apache,Chevron, Texaco, the DOE and the governments ofVenezuela, Spain and Japan. Except for Apache, allof those donors strongly oppose any oil importfee. But each contributed only a small fraction tothe project and none had specially earmarked thefunds for the study...