Word: conoco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conoco gets takeover fever...
Last week it was suddenly the other way around. The nation's ninth largest oil company, Conoco Inc. of Stamford, Conn. (1980 sales: $18.8 billion), became the reluctant target, rather than the proud suitor, in a corporate takeover raid. The predator was none other than Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Seagram Co. Ltd., the world's largest liquor distiller, with 1980 global revenues of $2.5 billion...