UNIVAR solutions: A leading supplier of chemicals
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The company I'm going to introduce this time is $Univar Solutions Inc.(UNVR)$.
It went public on 12th October 2007.
[Company Profile]
UNIVAR solutions Inc. was established on october12, 2007. The company is a leading global supplier of commodities and specialty chemicals. The company is the largest independent chemical distributor in the United States and Canada.
[History & Events]
1950: Univar acquired Industrial Materials Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Braun-Knecht-Heimann of San Francisco.
1980: Univar became North America's largest chemical distributor and sales topped $1 billion.
2002: Univar split off from Royal Vopak as an independent company and world leader in chemical distribution.
2007: Univar purchased a leading competitor, CHEMCENTRAL and became a privately held company, owned primarily by funds managed or advised by London-based CVC Capital Partners.
2009: Univar ended the decade with $1.2 billion in net sales from the distribution of approximately 2.7 billion metric tons of chemicals.
2013: Univar moved its corporate headquarters from Redmond to Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
2016: Univar had joined the Fortune 500 for the first time.
2017: Univar employed nearly 9,000 employees worldwide and generated net sales of $8.3 billion.
2019: Univar's shareholders approved the company's acquisition of Nexeo Solutions.
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