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Rockefeller's Standard Oil was possibly even more valuable - at the time of it's anti-trust mandated breakup it produced around 90% of USA's oil. The companies
by D_Alex 14y ago
Rockefeller's Standard Oil was possibly even more valuable - at the time of it's anti-trust mandated breakup it produced around 90% of USA's oil. The companies it split into became Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Conoco, Unilever (!) and a whole bunch of others.
- maxerickson 14y agoI'm playing wiki-facts here, but Unilever bought one of the breakup companies in 1987. The Unilever conglomerate established itself very much without being part of Standard Oil.
- D_Alex 14y agoI checked up and you are quite correct. Unilever bought Ponds which in turn grew out of a vaseline manufacturer previously owned by Standard Oil.