Abstract
Aparticularly strong message about the specialty segment of the chemical industry came through at the annual conference of ECMRA, the European association of chemical market researchers, held earlier this month in Paris. The message: Financially, big may be desirable, but operationally, big is not necessarily best. Other speakers looked at a variety of topics cutting across the industry, especially those pertinent to the commodity chemicals segment, historically the province of the large manufacturers. For Alasdair Nisbet, a mergers and acquisitions specialist in London with New York City-based financial firm Wasserstein Perella, the financial situation of the entire industry is a source of concern. Chemical company stocks have underperformed the local indexes by about 10% over the past few years, Nisbet pointed out. Of the top 100 companies in the U.S. by market value, only DuPont and Dow are included from the chemical industry. However, he noted that the list did include oil companies with chemical ...
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