Chasing laurels for Hardie

Article Abstract:

Peter Macdonald of James Hardie Industries has plans to rebuild the company's confidence after it was refused a listing on the New York Stock Exchange in Mar 1999. Macdonald is determined to make his company the prime supplier of home sidings in the US sunbelt. The main product is cement building boards that protect and insulate the home without warping or cracking.

Construction industry, Officials and employees, James Hardie Industries Proprietary Ltd., JHILF

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Backdoor boom

Article Abstract:

This article focuses on a new trend in business in which underperforming companies will morph, or transform, into an internet firm in order to raise their stock price and gain new equity capital. Several Australian companies that engaged in backdoor listing and became internet businesses, or dotcoms, are profiled.

Statistical Data Included, Management, Internet, Investments, Economic policy, Venture capital companies, Investment companies, Corporate reorganizations

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