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Dupont(e.i.)denemours


EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. is a publicly traded company having a good stock performance result. EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. is a fortune 500 stock listed company trading under DD.
 
DuPont was established in 1802 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company operates as a science and technology company. It engages in a variety of fields, including biotechnology, materials science, electronics, safety and security and synthetic fibers. The company has operations in the United States, Europe, Latin America Asia Pacific and Canada. Chad Holliday, Jr. is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of DuPont. 
 
The company operates in six segments of Agriculture and Nutrition, Coatings and Color Technologies, Performance Materials, Electronic and Communication Technologies, Safety and Protection, and Pharmaceuticals.
 
The Agriculture and Nutrition segment offers hybrid seed corn and soybean seed, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, value enhanced grains, and soy protein. The Coatings and Color Technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings, and white pigments. The Performance Materials segment provides engineering polymers, packaging and industrial polymers, films, and elastomers. The Electronic and Communication Technologies segment offers fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, photopolymers, and electronic materials. The Safety and Protection segment provides specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. The Pharmaceuticals segment includes the company's interest in two antihypertensive drugs, the Cozaar and Hyzaar.
 
The company includes independent and developmental businesses, such as bio-based materials. It serves diverse markets, including transportation, safety and protection, construction, agricultural, motor vehicle, home furnishings, electronics, medical, etc.
 
Dupont declared a first quarter 2006 common stock dividend of 37 cents per share, payable March 14, to stockholders of record February 15.  This dividend is the same as what was paid in the fourth quarter 2005. DuPont reported that apart from important items, third quarter earnings were .33 dollars per share, an increase of 32 percent versus last year. The third quarter included significant items totaling .42 dollars per share for taxes associated with repatriation under the American Jobs Creation Act, and charges for hurricane damage. Segment pretax operating income for third quarter 2005 was 545 million dollars compared to 438 million dollars in the third quarter 2004. The Third quarter 2005 segment sales, which include transfers and pro rata share of equity affiliate sales, were 6.2 billion dollars.

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