The company took a charge of 42 cents related to the bankruptcy of its then largest retailer in that quarter.
Completed in 2001, that ambitious development allowed the two-way passage of so-called Panamax ships (the then largest ships allowable in the canal) and decreased the average canal travel time by about 6 hours to about 10 hours total.
In 1957 the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company commissioned the construction of a freighter that was to be the then largest ship on the Great Lakes, measuring 729 feet (222 metres) long and weighing more than 13,600 tons.
Near the end of that decade, Francis Bouygues's stake amounted to just under 8%, though he could count for backing on the group's then largest shareholder, Crédit Lyonnais, at the time one of France's largest banks.
I don't know Fred Goodwin and he may be a terrific bloke but I don't think anyone would argue that his knighthood was awarded for what he achieved, rather than for who he was, that is the Chief Executive of our then largest bank.
The Co-op Bank chairman, Paul Flowers, is replaced by the former Alliance & Leicester boss Richard Pym. August 2013 The bank reveals the then largest loss in its history – £709m – and warns that without new capital it will not be a going concern.
She said that Conrad's decision to join the British merchant navy hadn't just been an accident; as the world's then largest fleet, and still expanding, it was always hungry for new officers and crew, and happy to recruit any nationality, including Polish.
The boss of a rival firm expects a repeat of the disastrous merger in 1986 of Saatchi & Saatchi with Ted Bates, which produced the world's then largest ad agency and more than a decade of feuding before an eventual divorce".I'm not sure this is in the best interests of their clients or their talent," says David Jones, the boss of Havas, a rival agency.
In 1946, Norway's then largest ski lift was installed between Stampesletta and Kanthaugen.
Boulerice was subsequently suspended for 25 games, matching the then largest suspension in NHL history.
The result was a $1.7 billion payday, the then largest ever for Pimco.
