CW Insider, March 1: Dow Chemical, Ready to Grow

Our cover story week features an interview with Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris on company’s transformation. Dow was essentially ready to carry out that conversion to a specialty chemicals and advanced materials leader when the late 2008 global economic meltdown upended two deals central to that plan. Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) abandoned a proposed 50-50 jv in petchems and plastics, to be called K-Dow, at the end of 2008. Dow’s proceeds from the jv, roughly $9 billion, were earmarked for the pending $19-billion acquisition of...

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