The January 24, 2001 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 23 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, January 24, 2026, 161 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, January 24, 2027, in 203 days. You have lived for 9,292 days, or about 223,012 hours, or about 13,380,761 minutes, or about 802,845,660 seconds.
Date: 25 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Kimberly-Clark Corp acquires Italy's Linostar, Italy's second-largest diaper manufacturer, from Bolton Group to help expand its Huggies sales internationally (S)
Date: 25 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Japan's Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry agrees to plead guilty and pay $11 million fine for its role in 17-year conspiracy to fix price of food perservatives called sorbates; Ueno executives Yuji Komatsu, Yoshihiko Katsuyama and Wakao Shinoda are indicted by federal grand jury in San Francisco (S)
Date: 25 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Mediq, which rents medical equipment to nursing homes and more than 5,000 hospitals, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it misses interest payments; lists $3.07 million in assets and $120.4 million in debts (S)
Date: 24 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Ohio's Charter One Financial acquires Alliance Bancorp for $245 million in cash and stock (S)
Date: 25 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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BB&T Corp agrees to buy F&M National Corp and Virginia Capital Bancshares for $1.35 billion in stock; BB&T will pay $1.17 billion for F&M National and $180.5 million for Virginia Capital (S)
Date: 24 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Metal products maker MascoTech Inc changes its name to Metaldyne Corp and says it will merge with Simpson Industries and Global Metal Technologies to form auto-parts maker with about $2 billion in annual sales (S)
Date: 24 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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J C Penney Co plans to close as many as 50 department stores around country as part of strategy to cut costs and revive profits (S)
Date: 25 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Hungry Minds, publisher of 'For Dummies' instructional books and Cliff Notes, will lay off about 130 workers, or about 19 percent of its employees, to cut costs; will close offices in Chicago, San Francisco and Foster City, Calif (S)
Date: 24 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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E*Trade Group, online broker that helped fuel trading on Nasdaq market, plans to move its listing to New York Stock Exchange (S)
Date: 24 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
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Marks & Spencer PLC, leading clothing retailer in Britain, says profit as percentage of sales widened eight-tenths of percentage point in 16 weeks to Jan 20 even as sales fell 5.1 percent at stores open year or more; graph (S)