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...For example, when Sam Pollock, BIP’s chief executive, announced the company’s prospective $8.4bn takeover of Genesee & Wyoming, a major operator of US short-line rail companies, he spoke of how “G & W will...
...G&W controls a portfolio of 120 railroads across North America, Europe and Australia, where it provides transportation services to more than 3,000 customers along more than 26,000km of tracks....
...RA has been public only since 2009, but G&W, which debuted in 1996, has grown sales at a compound annual rate of 20 per cent....
...Rather than list all the single letter stocks, let’s just look at the ones that haven’t yet been taken (just in case you want one): G (was Gillette until recently), I, J, L, N, P U, V, W and Z....
...Cannadine dedicates his book to the Andrew W....
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