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Consolidations : American Tin
Plate Company
Page entitled : The Tin
Plate Trust
Content of this page is about :
How Daniel G. Reid and William Leeds built the American Tin Plate
Company in Indiana into the Tin Plate Trust, using the Moore Brothers as
corporate consolidators
Extract :
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Reid
and Leeds then approached the Moore brothers from Chicago and proposed them
to evaluate the various tin plate plants operating in the USA and to
negotiate the terms of a merger with their owners. The task was a monumental
one, because the tin plate industry was quite atomized and the American Tin
Plate Company, the cornerstone of the proposed combination, only owned two
plants outright, and not even the largest ...
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