Business
Union Carbide Corp. urged its stockholders Sunday to tender their shares to the company in its effort to fight GAF Corp.’
Dec. 30, 1985
GAF Corp., upping the ante in its effort to buy Union Carbide Corp., today announced a new offer of $74 a share in cash for the 90% of Union Carbide Corp. stock it does not already own.
Dec. 26, 1985
Standard & Poor’s Corp. lowered its ratings on Union Carbide Corp.’
Jan. 9, 1985
World & Nation
At least 2,000 victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India, gas leak disaster marched through the city, shouting slogans and waving placards to protest the $470-million settlement between their government and Union Carbide Corp. of Danbury, Conn.
Feb. 15, 1991
GAF Corp. today backed off an attempt to acquire Union Carbide Corp., leaving Carbide shorn of its most profitable and fastest-growing businesses and without enough money to diversify after the fight to fend it off, analysts said.
Jan. 8, 1986
Union Carbide’s victory over GAF Corp. in federal court Monday will have little impact on GAF’s fight to gain control of the nation’s third-largest chemical company, analysts said Monday.
Dec. 31, 1985
Union Carbide Corp.’
Aug. 28, 1987
An Indian court Thursday ordered the confiscation of all Union Carbide Corp.’
May 1, 1992
The Indian government today filed criminal charges against the Union Carbide Corp. for the Bhopal gas leak, despite reports the two sides are close to an out-of-court settlement of the civil suit prompted by the 1984 disaster.
Dec. 1, 1987
Union Carbide Corp. said today it is selling its agricultural division, which manufactures the deadly chemical that killed more than 2,000 people in India in 1984.
July 22, 1986