Glass maker \Glass" mak`er\, or Glassmaker \Glass"mak`er\, n. One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- {Glass" mak`ing}, or {Glass"mak`ing}, n.
Shares in Pilkington, the world's leading glassmaker, were hit in late trading by a flurry of rumours concerning its US arm. The rumours surrounding Libbey-Owens-Ford, the 100-year-old Ohio glassmaker, ranged from insider trading to FBI involvement.
Shares in Pilkington, the world's leading glassmaker, were hit in late trading by a flurry of rumours concerning its US arm. The rumours surrounding Libbey-Owens-Ford, the 100-year-old Ohio glassmaker, ranged from insider trading to FBI involvement.
He looks at a financial statement of a French glassmaker, a West German steel manufacturer or a Swedish auto maker and sees three different ways of reporting with varying accounting methods and diverse disclosure rules.
He has just examined the latest results from Pilkington, the UK glassmaker and Saint-Gobain's arch-rival.
PILKINGTON, the UK glassmaker, is selling a 20 per cent stake in Triplex Safety Glass, its UK automotive glass subsidiary, to Nippon Sheet Glass of Japan for Pounds 13.3m.
BTR mounted a $1.8 billion hostile takeover attempt for Britain's Pilkington Brothers PLC, the giant glassmaker, in late 1986 but later dropped the bid amid a domestic political uproar over the move.
BTR PLC, a British industrial company, dropped its $1.76 billion bid for the glassmaker Pilkington Brothers PLC amid growing political unease about the proliferation of hostile takeovers here.