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Waste Management
a sustainable process for reducing the environmental impact of the disposal of all types of materials used by businesses. Waste management aims to avoid excessive use of resources and damage...
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WM buys out partners in recycling venture.(Waste Management Inc acquires Peltz Group and Fairfax Recycling Inc)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is buying out its recycling partners and doing away with the Recycle America Alliance concept. The move restores full ownership of the company's recycling assets to Waste Management less than...
Tags: alliance, Recycling, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc.
Research articles 2005-10-24
Pricey bike, but money well spent; WMI pays $800,100 for 'Tonight Show' motorcycle.(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. employees are used to being on the ground and helping clean up after disaster strikes. But when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit in December, there was no way they could roll out their trucks to...
Tags: bike, motorcycle, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2005-02-14
Two recycling giants combine forces; WMI, Peltz create Recycle America Alliance unit.(Cover Story)(Waste Management Inc. )
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. sees a far different world of recycling in the years ahead - one where there are fewer material recovery facilities that are far better utilized than today. The nation's largest...
Tags: company, recycling, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2003-01-20
Level field; DOJ tentatively OKs WMI-Allied deal.(News)(Brief Article)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc.'s proposed purchase of assets in southern Florida from Allied Waste Industries Inc. may proceed if Waste Management sells certain hauling assets, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The federal...
Tags: Allied Waste Industries Inc., asset, U.S. Department of Justice, Waste Management
Research articles 2003-10-27
Waste Management settles suit.
HOUSTON -- Waste Management Inc. and its independent auditor, Arthur Andersen L.L.P., last week settled a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of the waste disposal giant's shareholders and agreed to contribute to a $220 million settlement fund. HOUSTON -- Waste Management Inc. and...
Tags: Arthur Andersen, Waste Management
Research articles 1998-12-14
WMI to continue stock buyback program.(News Waste Management Inc. sees board okay stock buybacks for 2002, 2003 and 2004)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. expects to buy back plenty more common stock during the next couple of months and will continue the trend into next year. The Houston-based solid waste management giant already has...
Tags: board, company, stock, stock buyback, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2002-11-11
WMI: Cuts won't affect service.(Waste Management Inc. reduces workforce)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Waste Management Inc. says its 27 million customers will not see a difference in service as a result of its decision to eliminate 3.5 percent of its work force. The Houston-based company is axing 2,000 jobs by cutting out a management...
Tags: company, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI, workforce
Research articles 2002-03-18
Oil mixing may cost WMI $100 million.(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Officials in Sarasota County, Fla., allegedly caught two Waste Management Inc. drivers dumping used oil into the regular waste stream, and the fallout could jeopardize a $100 million contract extension the company was negotiating with the county. Officials in Sarasota County, Fla.,...
Tags: Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2002-05-27
WMI offers Chicago site plan.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management wants to reopen the CID landfill in southeast Chicago to municipal solid waste and is willing to give away more than half of the profits from the site in a $20 million deal in an effort to...
Tags: landfill, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2004-12-06
WMI cuts ties with biggest brokerage.(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
Houston - America's largest representative of waste generators and the country's biggest solid waste company are severing ties in a dispute over a contract valued at up to $35 million, depending on who's talking. Waste Management Inc. is canc ...
Tags: Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2001-08-06
SHAREHOLDERS WAIT FOR PIECE OF SETTLEMENT: WASTE'S $220-MIL. PAYOUT ONE OF LARGEST IN HISTORY.(Waste Management Inc.)(Statistical Data Included)
Thousands of current and former Waste Management Inc. stockholders will share in a $220-million settlement that resolves class-action lawsuits dating back two years that alleged that the company inflated earnings. Disgruntled investors filed more Thousands of current and former Waste Management Inc....
Tags: company, settlement, shareholder, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc.
Research articles 1999-10-04
USA Waste dumping effort for Waste Management deal. (USA Waste Services Inc.; Waste Management Inc.)
The failure of a deal that would have made one company a giant waste hauler in Greater Cleveland could mean lower waste disposal costs for area businesses. USA Waste Services Inc. of Houston has backed off its offer to buy the Cleveland-area operationThe failure of a...
Tags: company, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc.
Research articles 1997-05-12
Waste Management Inc. Names David A. Aardsma Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing
HOUSTON -- Waste Management Inc. (NYSE:WMI) today named David A. Aardsma Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing. Aardsma will report directly to Waste Management Chief Executive Officer David P. Steiner. For the past four years, Aardsma served as Waste Management's Vice President of Sales and has worked for the Company...
Tags: marketing, sales, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc.
Research articles 2005-01-19
Waste Management's Landfill Bind Prompts Meeting with PSC
MARTINSBURG - As trash stacked up along streets and roadways in Berkeley County earlier this summer, it looked as if Waste Management of Shenandoah Valley would get what it wanted: the go-ahead for higher limits on the landfill it owns in Hedgesville.MARTINSBURG - As trash stacked up along streets and...
Tags: landfill, PSC Inc., Waste Management
Research articles 2004-07-23
WASTE ALUMS AIMING TO CLEAN UP: BUT OLD FIRM'S ACCOUNTING FIASCO MAY HAUNT THEM.
The accounting debacle that rocked Waste Management Inc. may have sent the Oak Brook company into the arms of a Houston acquirer last year, but prominent former executives have resurfaced in new ventures here that borrow from the trash giant's old pl The accounting debacle that...
Tags: Waste Management, accounting, company
Research articles 1999-10-18
Simon Property partners with WM.(Corrugated Recycling)(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
Simon Property Group, Indianapolis, Ind., file nation's largest owner, developer and manager of high quality retail real estate, has entered into a new strategic partnership with Waste Management Inc., Houston, that includes waste removal and manag Simon Property Group, Indianapolis, Ind., file nation's ...
Tags: Waste Management, Waste Management Inc.
Research articles 2004-04-24
WMI drops Arthur Andersen.(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
Waste Management Inc.'s sometimes-rocky history with Arthur Andersen LLP is over. The nation's largest solid waste management company decided to part ways with the beleaguered auditing firm March 21 as the list of public companies ditching th Waste...
Tags: accounting, Arthur Andersen, auditing, company, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2002-04-01
WMI unveils financial plans.(News)(Waste Management Inc)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is increasing its dividend by a nickel per year - up to 80 cents per share - and plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on stock buybacks. ...
Tags: dividend, financial, stock, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2004-11-08
A man in control ; WMI's Myers executing board's plan.(Waste Management Inc., Maurice Myers)
Houston - This spring, while walking through the lobby of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel to a company leadership meeting, Waste Management Inc.'s top executive, Maurice Myers, was accosted by an employee. She hugged him and said thank you. ...
Tags: board, company, Customer Relation, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc., WMI
Research articles 2001-10-15
WM greenlights deal with NASCAR.(Waste Management Inc)
Byline: Jim Johnson One gets about 2.8 miles per gallon. The other gets about 4 miles per gallon. Both are painted green, gold and white and sport the familiar Waste Management Inc. logo, but the comparisons...
Tags: company, NASCAR, Waste Management, Waste Management Inc.
Research articles 2005-01-03
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