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Gulf and Western Industries, Inc. (stylized as Gulf+Western) was an American conglomerate.The company originally focused on manufacturing and resource extraction, but it began purchasing a number of entertainment companies beginning in 1966 and continuing through the 1970s.
Paramount was a former subsidiary of Gulf and Western Industries, which Bluhdorn purchased in 1956 when it was called the Michigan Plating and Stamping Company. By 1966, Bluhdorn had grown Gulf and Western to revenues estimated at $182 million (equivalent to $1.881b in 2024); that year it ranked 346th in the Fortune 500 list.
In 1962, Gaston became treasurer and controller of Gulf and Western Industries, and in 1966 he was elected to the company's board of directors. [2] In 1967, he was elected to the board of directors of Famous Players, a Canadian theater chain owned by Gulf and Western subsidiary Paramount Pictures. [4]
The passage of environmental protection laws in the 1970s turned New Jersey Zinc's legacy of environmental pollution into a liability. In 1981, former officials of Gulf and Western's Natural Resources Division led a buyout of New Jersey Zinc and made it a subsidiary of Horsehead Industries, Inc, a reference to the company's logo adopted in 1852.
Marquette Cement moved its headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee in 1974, [2] and two years later it was acquired by Gulf and Western Industries, becoming part of the Gulf and Western Natural Resources Group. [3] Gulf and Western later sold Marquette Cement to Lone Star Industries in 1982. [4] In 1999, Lone Star Industries was bought by ...
The Trump International Hotel and Tower, originally the Gulf and Western Building, is a high-rise building at 15 Columbus Circle and 1 Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was originally designed by Thomas E. Stanley as an office building and completed in 1970 as the headquarters of Gulf and Western Industries.
This category is for Gulf and Western Industries (Gulf+Western) (1958−1989), a former conglomerate company of the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Universal American merged into Gulf and Western Industries in 1966. [5] Gulf and Western later sold Bohn to the Wickes Companies. [citation needed] Wickes sold Bohn Aluminum and Brass to Norsk Hydro and its Heat Transfer Group division (which included Bohn Heat Transfer) to the Heatcraft subsidiary of Lennox International. [6]