Later, talks began with Linde, Messer Griesheim's biggest German competitor, about merging the two companies.
In 1997, Hoechst decided to focus on life sciences and started to lose interest in Messer Griesheim.
In 1999, when Hoechst merged with Rhone-Poulenc to form Aventis, it decided to sell Messer Griesheim's welding business.
Messer is already in four industrial regions of China, serving mainly steel complexes, and is now eyeing inland provinces.
Hoechst had 67%, but the Messer family kept 50% of the voting rights.
Representative Messer is a member of the House Committee on the Budget and Republican Freshman Class President.
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In the industrial-gas business small players have as much chance as the giants in grasping big opportunities, Mr Messer argues.
Mr Messer invited Carlyle, a private-equity firm, to join him in a successful buy-out of this part of the business.
Resident William Messer said he had raised concerns about the road being used as a cut-through by vehicles.
Stefan Messer decided it was time to try the private-equity route again, but this time to take control of the entire company.
Mr Messer, who was running the company's French subsidiary, knew a spin-off was only a matter of time and thought that the family stake would be diluted.
Nonetheless, panelist Joseph Messer, a professor at Rush University, predicts that some patients will refuse to switch, though he thinks changing drugs is now prudent.
In the early 1900s Adolf Messer, the founder, quickly moved from gas lamps, suspecting that electricity would do the job better, to making welding equipment and industrial gases.
Messer overruled the disciplinary committee, which wanted a permanent suspension.
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Alex Dibelius, co-head of Goldman Sachs in Germany, and an adviser to the Messer family, initiated talks with Paul Achleitner, his former Goldman boss, who was now a board member at Allianz.
Although Mr Messer sacrificed shares in an empire that stretched from Lima to Kuala Lumpur, he is now chief executive of a smaller, but still far-reaching domain, and one he can control himself.
Mr Olmert's defence has been to lay responsibility for the handling of the money on his former law partner and confidant, Uri Messer, giving prosecutors the tricky task of proving otherwise.
Mr Messer, with an eye to the future, insisted on an option to buy the company outright after three years, although most people thought that a trade sale or even a stockmarket flotation was more likely.
Superintendent Messer (ph), thank you for doing such a magnificent job of maintaining Arlington National Cemetery in honor of those who are buried here and as a tribute to what all America stands for.
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