Hints and tips:
...Among its special advisers in the US are Ginni Rometty, recently released from IBM, Ursula Burns, the former Xerox chief executive, and Andrew Liveris, the one-time Dow Chemical boss who sits on the board...
...Dow said late last year that it plans to carve out $5bn of commodity chemicals business, but Mr Loeb et al think far more is possible....
...Late last year, parliament forced the scrapping of a joint venture with Dow Chemical, and in March a planned fourth oil refinery was put on hold....
...broadening and that more and more groups such as airlines, homebuilders and cyclicals like Dow Chemical, International Paper and Alcoa are showing signs of having bottomed out”....
...AL: Thank you. FT: That was Andrew Liveris, of Dow Chemical, on the dismissal of two senior employees. You can also hear him discussing private equity, the economy, and Dow strategy....
...to the relocation of industry to China, et al?...
...Its market capitalisation now equals that of Dow Chemicals of the US and Germany’s BASF combined, he says, amounting to a bet on the Saudi company dominating the global petrochemical industry....
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