Investors seemed to approve of the Midland, Mich.-based company's efforts to pay down the weighty debt it had to take on to complete the Rohm acquisition through divesting Rohm's non-core assets.
BP is one of the fossil fuel companies that the Guardian is calling on two of the world's two largest health charities, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, to divest from through its Keep it in the Ground campaign.
They find that firms engage in acquisition at an increased rate after they divest units through spin-offs.
In the last year it has raised £27.9 billion ($39.7 billion) by divesting itself of companies it inherited through its purchase of Mannesmann of Germany.
The Government has been accused of launching a "direct attack on local democracy" by preparing to slip through Parliament an unprecedented curb on councils divesting from trade and investments they regard as unethical.
Today, on the anniversary of the agency's creation on April 30 , 1921 the Port Authority has begun divesting itself of the trade center's twin towers through a 99-year lease to a private real estate concern signed last week.
One way we can do this is through the ethical investing in sustainable energy and divesting from carbon-based energy companies.
Our main innovations are to cut through the BBC's pattern of anti-competitive behaviour by divesting production and all commercial businesses, and to align funding policy with digital switchover policy.
I could see it quite clearly, as I had seen it one day, while waiting in his kitchen for a sun shower to pass, rays of sun alighting on it, divesting it of its sheath of brown dust, the red ripples flowing through it, so that it seemed to liquefy, as if it were being newly blown.
He had encouraged the owners to start divesting some of their furnishings, with the result that enormous china services began flowing through his store, Franklin & Company Antiques, and out again, sometimes landing near their original home on Ocean Drive.
