dSculptor Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Hey guys was just doing some searching and came across this article on NDP, It may have been linked out there already,but I'll link it again in case anyone wants to read it.Quite a history they've had.http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2840500145.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Very interesting . . . . . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dSculptor Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 Hey ..thanks for moving this, I should have looked at the categories before posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Very interest article. Also interesting: It was ostensibly written in 1988, one year after National was acquired by Fortune Brands and its liquor division merged with Jim Beam Brands. Which raises the question, what did Fortune do with the metals, plastics, and chemicals divisions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraightBoston Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Very interest article. Also interesting: It was ostensibly written in 1988, one year after National was acquired by Fortune Brands and its liquor division merged with Jim Beam Brands. Which raises the question, what did Fortune do with the metals, plastics, and chemicals divisions?Now you've piqued my interest. As near as I can tell, Beam (then American Brands) only got the distilled spirits division of National Distillers and Chemicals. The other divisions went forward, renamed themselves as Quantum Chemical, merged with Hanson PLC and became Millennium, which in turn became part of Lyondell -- now LyondellBasell. (There's another part called Cristal that may or may not have a ND history.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Thanks. I was very involved at Beam with the National integration but I don't recall ever hearing about the other divisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettckeen Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Great find, thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmpevans Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Very interesting article. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEelfinn Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Great information! Thanks, also, to those who supplemented here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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