E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | Introduction
Introduction
1007 Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19898
U.S.A.
Telephone: (302) 774-1000
Toll Free: (800) 441-7515
Fax: (302) 999-4399
Web site: http://www.dupont.com
Public Company
Incorporated: 1915
Employees: 55,000
Sales: $27.34 billion (2004)
Stock Exchanges: New York
Ticker Symbol: DD
NAIC: 325211 Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing; 313210 Broadwoven Fabric Mills; 324110 Petroleum Refineries; 325131 Inorganic Dye and Pigment Manufacturing; 325188 All Other Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing; 325998 All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product Manufacturing
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company is undoubtedly better known by consumers under the name DuPont, one of the oldest family names in American business. The company operates in more than 70 countries, selling a wide range of products competing in the agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation, and apparel markets. After a century of focusing on synthetics derived from oil-based ingredients, DuPont is focused on biological materials as the basis for its products.