The following are business segment highlights comparing sales and pre-tax operating income (PTOI) (loss) excluding significant items for fourth quarter 2008 versus fourth quarter 2007.
As anticipated, declines in construction, motor vehicle sales and consumer spending, magnified by inventory destocking across most supply chains during the fourth quarter.
Buildings of the 1970s, such as the Mediaset headquarters, increasingly are being renovated to respond to today’s building requirements such as energy efficiency and thermal insulation.
AAA Four Diamond Award winners comprise just 3 percent of the 58,000 Diamond Rated lodgings and restaurants throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
The “Clear into the Future” initiative is designed to preserve and enhance the beauty and integrity of the Delaware Estuary for future generations by working with local civic and community groups.
DuPont published a progress report announcing significant progress in developing new high-performance products that will enable the company to no longer make, buy or use PFOA by 2015, or earlier if possible.
The completed renovation project of the Innovation Center at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del., in mid-2008, included the installation of a solar energy system.
Funding from DuPont supports the implementation of a three-phase monitoring plan within the Boone River watershed to help develop the measurable ecological restoration goals at the watershed scale.
Several DuPont renewably sourced products already are in the market and can be found in textile, automotive, cosmetics, personal care and industrial applications.
