1890年4月8日
A backwoods prospector named Leonidas (Lon) Merritt scratches together $918 to buy 600 acres of land in the Mesabi Range near Duluth, Minn., at a land auction. He soon hits the world抯 richest vein of fine iron ore, cutting raw-material costs for the U.S. steel industry from $5 to $6 per ton of ore to just $2 to $3 per ton, a 60% drop in five years. But Merritt overexpands his Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines Co., and John D. Rockefeller ends up snatching it away for barely over $1 million. By 1905, Minnesota will produce 51% of all iron ore in the U.S.
2004年4月8日 首例上市公司间吸收合并案问世
中国证券市场首例上市公司间吸收合并案将问世,第一百货与华联商厦4月8日发布董事会决议,拟以第一百货为合并方,华联商厦为被合并方,合并完成后华联商厦的资产、负债和权益并入第一百货,华联商厦的法人资格被注销。合并后存续公司将更名为上海百联集团股份有限公司。华联商厦和第一百货非流通股折股比例为 1:1.273,流通股折股比例为1:1.114。