Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The du Pont family (English: / d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /) [1] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business.
Through later mergers the company became DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC), part of the American DuPont chemical empire, and was rebranded as Axalta Coating Systems after being purchased by The Carlyle Group in 2013. Axalta went public on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2014 and since then has become fully independent. Carlyle Group ...
Consumer products manufacturing 82,006 2.3% 107,000 Cincinnati, Ohio: 51 ... Plains All American Pipeline: Petroleum industry 48,712 -15.1% 4,200 Houston, Texas: 93
A list of the most Google-searched brands of 2022 and the industry's top billionaires. Skip to main content. Lifestyle. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [2]
The richest American families accumulated their billion-dollar fortunes in different ways, from publishing and cosmetics to retailers and hotels.
Steve Ballmer. U.S. wealth rank: 8 Overall wealth rank: 10 Net worth: $123 billion 2023 net worth: $80.7 billion Age: 68 Source of income: Microsoft, self-made Stanford dropout Steve Ballmer ...
In 1957, he joined DuPont as an industrial engineer in the Kinston, North Carolina, plant, moving on to manufacturing and management positions in Wilmington, Delaware, Old Hickory, Tennessee and Camden, South Carolina. [1] [2] [5] He was CEO and chairman from 1989 to 1995. [1] [4] During that time, DuPont stock increased by 160 percent. [4]