| LC control no. | n 79127804 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company |
| Variant(s) | Du Pont de Nemours (E. I.) & Company Du Pont de Nemours & Company Dupont Company Du Pont Company Du Pont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) Dupont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company DowDuPont Inc. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Corteva, Inc. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company EID (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) |
| See also | Founder: Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 Absorbed corporate body: Christiana Securities Company E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company Absorbed corporate body: Newport Company Dow Chemical Company Successor: EIDP, Inc. |
| Beginning date | 1802 |
| Ending date | 2023 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Wilmington (Del.) |
| Field of activity | Gunpowder industry Chemical industry |
| Special note | The following subdivisions have not been used as headings: Advertising Dept.; Agricultural Extension Division; Chemicals Dept.; Employee Relations Dept.; Freon Products Division; Organization Planning Division; Paint and Varnish Division; Personnel Research Section; Rayon Division; Smokeless Powder Dept.; Trapshooting Division; Zerone-Zerex Anti-freeze Sales Section Not the same as the later DuPont, Inc., 2019- |
| Found in | Molecular approaches to developmental biology, 1987: CIP t.p. (Dupont) galley (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company) Calcott, W.S. A decimal system for the class. of chemical research docs., 1952?: t.p. (E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company [sic]) Energy conservation manual, 1988: t.p. (E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.) Neoprene notebook, Dec. 1947: caption t.p. (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.) Du Pont, one hundred and fifty years, 1951: p. 277 (1931 Newport Company, compounder of dyes and synthetic organic chemicals, was purchased by Du Pont) E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company records, 1765-2008: (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; this heading is used for four separate corporate entities: 1) a partnership organized in Paris, France, on April 21, 1801, with operations in the United States after 1802; it built its first gunpowder mills near Wilmington, Del., in 1802-04 and was renewed periodically until 1899, when the business was incorporated; 2) a Delaware corporation, inc. Oct. 23, 1899 and dissolved April 7, 1902, which acquired the assets of the 1801-99 partnership; 3) a second Delaware corporation, inc. Feb. 26, 1902, as the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company, which on March 1, 1902, acquired all the assets of the 1899-1902 corporation as part of a refinancing and expansion plan and changed its name to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company on May 8, 1902; in May 1903, it sold all its black and smokeless powder operations to a new intermediate holding company, the E.I. du Pont Company; on Aug. 1, 1903, it sold all the shares in the E.I. du Pont Company to the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company; the latter became the prime operating subsidiary, while E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company became a holding company; the 1902-1912 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was dissolved on Nov. 14, 1912, pursuant to an antitrust decree, leaving the E.I du Pont de Nemours Powder Company as the parent company; 4) a third Delaware corporation, properly "E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Incorporated", inc. Sept. 4, 1915; it purchased all the assets of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company in 1915 and became and remains the parent company of a multinational chemical firm; logos and service marks "Du Pont", "DuPont" and "Du Pont Company" are used by the parent company and its numerous subsidiaries) Telephone call to DuPont External Affairs, May 14, 1998: (In 1994, the company changed certain logos and standards for media usage from "Du Pont" to "DuPont"; other logos and the legal form of the name have not been changed) Christiana Securities Company records, 1915-1977: (Christiana Securities Company merged into E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Oct. 17, 1977) Corteva, Inc. Annual report for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2021: title page (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; address of principal executive offices: 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46268) page 3 (on 31 May 2019, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("EID") was contributed to Corteva, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of DowDuPont; on 1 June 2019, Corteva became an independent company; Corteva is a leading global provider of seed and crop protection solutions focused on the agriculture industry) page 4 (EID is a subsidiary of Corteva, Inc.) ; 2022: title page (EIDP, Inc.; address of principal executive offices: [also at] 974 Centre Road, Wilmington, Delaware 19805) Corteva website, 28 December 2022: press release (Corteva, Inc. announced today its subsidiary E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company will change its name to EIDP, Inc., consistent with its contractual obligations related to its separation from DowDuPont, Inc.; the change will be effective January 1, 2023) Wikipedia, viewed 24 February 2023: under DuPont (DuPont [E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company] was founded in 1802 by Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, near Wilmington, Delaware; on 11 December 2015, DuPont announced a merger with Dow Chemical Company, forming a combined company, DowDuPont: merger of the two largest U.S. chemical companies closed on 31 August 2017; following the merger [and reorganization], DowDuPont would pursue a separation into three independent, publicly traded companies: an agriculture (Corteva), a materials science (Dow), and a specialty products company [a new Dupont]) BLNAL file, viewed 1 March 2023: heading (E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company) |
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