24 januari 2001 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♒. Het was de 23e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 25 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 24 januari 2026, 139 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 24 januari 2027, in 225 dagen. Je hebt 9.270 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 222.495 uur, of ongeveer 13.349.724 minuten, of ongeveer 800.983.440 seconden.
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
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
Ohio's Charter One Financial acquires Alliance Bancorp for $245 million in cash and stock (S)
Date: 25 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
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
Bloomberg News
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)