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The World's Top Chemical Companies

The much shrunken DuPont Company as it continues to decline is beginning to look more and more like the General Motors of chemicals!

Both of these one-time mammoth industry leaders (GM was the largest motor company in the world; DuPont, the largest chemical company for most of the past century) suffered for decades from misfiring and mismanaging marginal leaders.

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The World's Top Chemical Companies

Wow! DuPont which formerly was the largest, and unquestioned leader in the chemical industry has plunged from number one to number eight in the course of a single decade. This dramatic shrinkage was driven by a misfiring and stunningly mediocre Management!

In sharp contrast, BASF and Dow, first and second largest respectively, continue to grow robustly while DuPont continues to shrivel and retreat. DuPont's expected sales for the full year 2009 are projected at an anemic $26 billion. ...funfun..

Chemical Companies' Outlook: Who's Right?

Despite some retrenchment, Dow Chemical remains the number two chemical enterprise in the world by revenues, with BASF, number one. In contrast, the much shrunken and decaying DuPont Company has fallen precipitously in a single decade down from first to ninth.

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Dow Chemical's Next Move

Isn't BASF the largest chemical enterprise in the world in revenues? Dow is second. The much shrunken and badly managed DuPont Company is used to be number one, and is now nine! ...funfun..