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1199:) is extremely short, only containing corporate information. A merger was last proposed in 2019 but no responses on this talk page occurred since then. I think given the size of Dow Inc's article, and considering that Dow Inc is only a parent company and not in a situation like Volkswagen where it owns multiple brands, I believe a merger of some type should occur. As for the name of the article, either title works. "Dow Inc." is the name of the company and it's pretty short in terms of names, but "Dow Chemical Company" is more descriptive and will reduce any confusion between Dow Chemical and Dow Jones given that Dow often is also a shortened form of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 519: 498: 287: 529: 412: 391: 740: 345: 320: 1035: 422: 913: 892: 651: 630: 278: 248: 219: 995: 661: 1048:
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I would also suggest that the new article be titled Dow Chemical Company (or Dow Chemical if editors would prefer so), as while Dow Inc. is the formal name of the company, it's too confusing with other Dow-named things (especially both the Dow Jones index and the Dow Jones subsidiary of NewsCorp)
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despite it having been rescued from bankruptcy. Now there was no bankruptcy here, but a the continuous operation despite the legal corporate changes are analogous. That's the thrust of the proposal; articles on companies are about the whole institution, not just the legal entity.
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show that their balance sheets and statements of income are nearly identical. This confirms that Dow Inc is a holding company even though the companies are technically different. It can therefore easily be discussed in a header about corporate structure in the article
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The history section is extremely lengthy as it is, and the acquisitions and mergers listed throughout further congests the section and disrupts the flow of the article. These should probably be moved to their own dedicated “acquisitions and mergers” section.
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Is anyone able to confirm that Down Chemical Company is a subsidiary of the new Dow Inc? From everything I've read, Dow Chemical Company merged with DuPont and was spun off as Dow Inc and the name Dow Chemical Company no longer exists.
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After a few months, it does still seem like that the two articles would be better as merged. Haven't seen too much improvement to both articles personally, and comparison to DuPont is
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Despite having the same name, they are two completely separate companies. See how we have treated the identically parallel case of
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even though it's technically not the same company from before the 2009 packaged bankruptcy. Or one article for the
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into the appropriate sub-heading and/or any additional history of same will not overly stress the larger article.
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We're actually discussing merging Dow Chemical and Dow Inc into a single article (see below)
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will be necessity be shorter because of its shorter corporate history).
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