Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should an aggressive, well-managed firm want to buy Firestone, the most troubled tire company in the land? Ask Borg-Warner (1977 sales of $2.03 billion), which last week announced a proposed merger that is really an $870 million takeover of the much larger tire and rubber maker ('77 sales: $4.4 billion). The advantages are clearer for Firestone and its unhappy stockholders than for Borg-Warner, which makes auto parts, air-conditioning gear, chemicals and plastics...
...tied with Atlanta for a wild-card play-off berth. Lowly Houston, the mighty Cowboys' poor cousin in the American Conference, sported an identical record. Throughout the 28-team league, with the season nearly three-fourths over, the standings are closer than at any time since the 1970 merger with the American Football League. Before this week's action, only Los Angeles and Pittsburgh had managed to open modest leads in their divisions-two games. The Pack was back in contention, rekindling memories of the Vince Lombardi era in Green...
Superlatives are never exactly in short supply in the advertising business, but the news that came out of the world's largest ad firm last week really was a stunner. Announcing the biggest merger in Madison Avenue history, the Interpublic Group of Companies, the Manhattan-based agency holding company that is the industry's General Motors (1978 billings: $1.9 billion), announced that it was acquiring SSC & B, the U.S.'s eighth largest agency (billings: $750 million), for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of SSC & B (formerly Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles) would boost Interpublic's combined billings to more than...
...meeting also discussed the possible merger of the BSA with the Afro-American Cultural Center to eliminate meeting and program conflicts of the two black-students organizations. The group did not take any action the proposal...
...which an artificially reduced number of steel plants will make a killing. The Carter Administration is doing its best to bring this about: Attorney-General Griffin Bell approved Lykes' salvage plan of merging with LTV Corporation, despite the ruling by his own Antitrust Division that the merger was illegal because LTV operates Jones and Laughlin Steel...