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Waste Management Inc. (WMI) is in the Business Services Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $13.3B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $1.1B
- Market Cap
- Nov 20 2008
- $14.2B
Latest News and Analysis
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...
WMI sponsorships boost diversity.(News)(Waste Management Inc)
Byline: Jim Johnson Part of Waste Management Inc.'s growing involvement with NASCAR is aimed at promoting diversity in the sport. Waste Management is sponsoring driver Bill Lester as he drives in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series...
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...
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. ...
Team e-waste; WMI unit to hold events in 7 cities.(News)(Waste Management Inc,)(2004 Vision for America award)
Byline: Joe Truini Byline: Joe Truini
Wild storm blows through workers' lives at WMI office.(Special Report)
Byline: Jim Johnson Melissa Doyle's prayers were answered, the Waste Management Inc. district manager figures. Hurricane Charley - just as she wished - spared the trucks at the company's district offices in Charlotte Harbor. ...
WMI realigns markets, makes exec changes.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is tweaking its markets and making some executive changes. The nation's largest solid waste management company is realigning markets. Ohio, which previously operated as a joint market area with...
WMI realigns its execs.(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc.'s new CEO doesn't see a change at the top of the nation's largest trash company making much of a difference to the outside world. David P. Steiner, who had been...
Corporate giants like WMI decentralize power.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is following a corporate trend of distributing power at the top of the company. David P. Steiner is succeeding A. Maurice Myers as CEO of the trash giant, but he...
WMI saga concludes; 2 execs to pay $4.2 million to settle charges.(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Two men at the center of a financial scandal that rocked the nation's largest trash hauler, Waste Management Inc., four years ago will pay millions to settle insider-trading charges with the federal government. ...
WMI pumps up dividend payment.(News; Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson America's largest solid waste management firm is dramatically increasing its yearly dividend payment to shareholders. Waste Management Inc. has been paying stockholders 1 cent per share per year, but will hike that to...
WMI Cuts Jobs; Ditches and Acquires Assets.
Byline: Leslie Harrison Waste Age Intern WASTE MANAGEMENT INC. WMI, Houston, made headlines in June with its announcement to cut approximately 800 jobs from its workforce. This is the second round of job cuts WMI has enacted this year. ...
WMI eliminates 800 more jobs.(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Byline: Jim Johnson
Automaker teams with WMI to power plant.(News)(BMW Manufacturing Corp.)(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Decomposing trash is fueling a quarter of BMW Manufacturing Corp.'s energy needs at a South Carolina auto plant. Methane gas from Waste Management Inc.'s Palmetto landfill near Spartanburg, S.C., is now flowing to...
WMI shuffles execs, grooms CEO aspirants.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is looking to a time when A. Maurice Myers is no longer the man in charge. The Houston-based solid waste giant is making a handful of senior management changes, including...
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...
WMI checks rules after landfill scam.(Waste Management Inc.)(Cover Story)
Byline: Joe Truini Byline: Joe Truini
Patent problem; Former WMI unit loses liner lawsuit.(News)(Poly America wins former Waste Management Inc. unit Gundle/SLT Environmental patent case)(Brief Article)
Byline: Roger Renstrom Byline: Roger Renstrom
2003 could include more layoffs at WMI.(Cover Story)(Waste Management Inc.)
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is budgeting for a flat economy in the upcoming year and is not ruling out the possibility of more layoffs. The possibility of job cuts comes after the Houston-based solid ...
WMI L.A. union averts strike.(Waste Management Inc.)(News)
Byline: Jim Johnson A new slate of leaders for unionized trash haulers in Los Angeles announced late last week will at least temporarily avert a strike that would involve about 500 Waste Management Inc. workers. The...
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Waste Management Inc. Company Info
Contact Information
1001 Fannin Street
Suite 4000
Houston, TX
713 512 6200
NAICS Code
Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal: 562211
