That changed the nature of the business from primarily an oil sands operation to a more diversified company.
Peter Wallenberg, Jacob's father, became Investor's chairman in the 1980s and transformed it into a diversified investment company.
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And Vedanta Resources, a diversified mining company, saw the short position in its stock decline by 1.43% over the past month, as of June 2.
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As the pitch noted: Lowes Corporation is a diversified holding company, with a large portfolio of cash, strong cash flows, and focused on long term value creation.
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Mr. Meister contributes the type of experience and qualifications the Board seeks to maintain, primarily through his significant financial expertise in the high-tech market with experience as founder and managing partner of investment management firm and as a senior executive of a diversified holding company and investment companies overseeing the investment and management of a variety of companies, including high-tech companies.
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Nationwide diversified financial services company, Wells Fargo has a dividend yield of 2.7 percent and a payout ratio of 0.05.
They are as diversified an energy company as you could ever want.
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Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, Chemical Financial is a diversified financial services company, which operates through a single subsidiary bank, Chemical Bank.
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DuPont is a diversified global chemical company, supplying agricultural products (such as seeds and pesticides), high-performance materials, automotive coatings, electronic materials and key industrial chemicals to industries and consumers world-wide.
The globetrotter has worked in five continents in different sectors: as agricultural commodities trader for Noble Group, Asia's largest diversified commodities trading company, in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Whenever an acquisition was made in a diversified health care company with many separate divisions, the various corporate staff functions would all immediately descend on the new unit and start giving instructions about the proper way of doing things.
The company has diversified away from just pre-paid coupons into a rapidly growing goods business.
For a company so diversified, it is vulnerably dependent on a single brand.
Citigroup Inc. (C), a diversified financial services holding company, provides a range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide.
The company has diversified, making new products, and winning a three year contract to supply ice cream to all the hospitals and nursing homes in Northern Ireland.
He put together a holding company, Diversified Asset Management Group Worldwide, to exploit inefficiencies at airports run by local authorities, who can't expand a terminal without an okay from the feds--and who are forced to offer what amounts to lifetime employment to even the least-deserving employees.
This company is more diversified as it builds single-family detached homes and condos in 28 states.
Over the past decade, the company has also diversified into the fields of special steel, real estate and thermoelectricity.
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The company has successfully diversified away from Linux with JBoss.
Take, for example, Compass Diversified Holdings, a holding company that owns a controlling stake in a number of businesses, including CamelBak, American Furniture, and Liberty Safe and Security Products.
Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.
"U.S. residential housing exposures are manageable given AIG's size, financial strength and diversified global businesses, " the company said.
The Optum division allows the company to offer a diversified service offering, thus differentiating itself from its competitors, which include Wellpoint and Aetna.
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By purchasing a proven revenue generator, Marathon Patent Group is pursuing an unusually diversified business model versus a typical IP company.
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France Telecom is less globally diversified than these two peers, but the company is hardly provincial.
Stable-value funds typically consist of a diversified bond portfolio combined with bank or insurance-company "wrap" contracts.
Cisco looks like a company facing redoubled competition just as it diversified in the wrong directions and misread the greatest shift in business technology: consumerization.
"The stock market is right now not valuing diversified media companies, so the board of the company has to decide they are going to take advantage of some of these very attractive offers to purchase some assets, " Bobrinskoy says.
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