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Another Serial Spin- Mallinckrodt(MNK) To Spin Off Specialty Generics Business

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Well over a century ago, brothers Gustav, Otto and Edward Mallinckrodt founded a chemical company. Today, the company that still bears their name plans a spinoff to try to recreate some of the value that has been lost in the last few years. Mallinckrodt(MNK) today is a second generation spinoff. Grandfather Tyco executed a spinoff of Covidien in… Read More »

The End Of A Conglomerate – ADT & Tyco International Both Scooped Up

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Grab a tissue and say farewell to the Tyco (TYC) name. The former high flying conglomerate has a complicated history full of acquisitions (lots of those), strategy shifts, scandal ($6,000 shower curtains!) and of course, a lot of spinoffs. Current DuPont (DD) CEO Ed Breen smashed the company apart not once, but twice, creating three entities in both… Read More »