Cool story of cold revenge, but for making money, think of a steel maker and a specialty chemical company.
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And today the Russian coal and steel company Evraz Group polka-danced off with the Czech Republic's major steel maker Vitkovice Steel.
It worked on Deutsche Telekom's privatisation and was a big influence behind Krupp's 1997 hostile-turned-friendly bid for Thyssen, another steel maker.
In 1989 Gerdau acquired Courtice Steel, an ailing long-steel maker in Canada.
USX, is only the world's 11th-largest steel maker, although America until recently was the world's largest steel market (China has now overtaken it).
Mitsubishi wants to take orders from companies that are too small to deal directly with the likes of Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steel maker.
The most disturbing case was Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steel maker, whose top managers had not heard of the Year 2000 problem until a year ago.
As Kimberly Strassel notes in her May 17 Wall Street Journal column, when Bain invested in buying and upgrading the steel maker, its owner, Armco, was considering shutting it down.
The Financial Times report suggested that Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel maker, could afford to match the 9% stake bought earlier this year by China's state-owned aluminium group Chinalco together with US firm Alcoa.
The 53-year-old Lakshmi Mittal oversees the LNM group, the world's largest steel-maker with mills spanning 12 countries.
According to various reports, some 250 officials descended on the offices of the steel-maker as part of an investigation into suspected tax evasion.
Rising losses and a heavy debt burden at the Mumbai-based, steel-maker are said to have raised suspicions that funds may have been diverted elsewhere.
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If few people can name an Argentine multinational, that is because there are only two of them: Arcor, a chocolate maker, and Tenaris, a steel-pipe maker.
CST, a small maker of steel slabs thought to have potential.
Gerdau, for instance, has mills in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Canada, and this week said it plans to buy control of AmeriSteel, an American maker of steel bars.
This Ohio company, founded as a wooden barrel maker, makes steel drums, corrugated boxes, water bottles, rain barrels and basically every type of packaging you could think of.
It is the only big maker of high-end steel products within a 500km radius of Linz and has become the biggest supplier in these new markets.
Philip Armour, for instance, was a meat packer from Chicago, Andrew Carnegie, a Pittsburgh steel man and Maximillian Fleischmann, a yeast maker from Cincinnati.
It will be put back together inside a special steel structure designed by Borders-based mount-maker Richard West.
The tiny compartment that the film-maker sits in is made from thick steel, which is able to resist the 1, 000 atmospheres of pressure he experienced at full ocean depth.
The 86-year-old maker of flat-rolled and fabricated steel products has been in the dumps for a quarter of a century, in and out of bankruptcy since 1986.
Not an American car company, steel company, energy company, clothier, financial institution, tool and die maker, or shipping enterprise.
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