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Monsanto and American Home Products call off merger

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Monsanto Co. of St. Louis, MO, and American Home Products Corp. (AHP) of Madison, NJ, mutually agreed to end their merger on Oct. 12, 1998. The companies agreed on Jun. 1, 1998, to merge in a deal valued at $34 billion. According to the companies, they cancelled the merger because it was no longer in the best interests of their respective shareholders. Monsanto and AHP loss a combined market capitalization of almost $14.6 billion on the day of the announcement of the merger's cancellation. In addition, Monsanto's stock decreased by 26.6%, while AHP's dropped by 10%.

Publisher: Doane Information Service
Publication Name: Agri Marketing
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-1180
Year: 1998
Acquisitions & mergers, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing, Company Planning/Goals, Chemicals & Allied Products, Chemical Manufacturing, Drugs, Chemicals, Monsanto Co., Article, American Home Products Corp

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Minimum wages and information

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A minimum wage assists in sorting skilled from unskilled workers to the extent that levels of skill are ascertained beforehand by the employer, and the unskilled are further separated by certification tests. The result that is employment is increased and prices reduced

Author: Mason, Charles F.
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economics and Business
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0148-6195
Year: 2001
Employee Recruitment, Statistical Data Included, Research, Wages, Minimum wage, Skilled labor

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Efficient organization of information processing

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The implementation of economic efficiency models in organizational information management and decision making is examined.

Author: Cukrowski, Jacek, Fischer, Manfred M.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication Name: Managerial & Decision Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0143-6570
Year: 2007
Methods, Decision-making, Decision making, Usage, Information management, Information accessibility, Economic development models

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