New York Breaking up is the newest craze for ginormous global companies. Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba and GE announced plans to split into multiple entities this week. The trend may have only just begun.
Conglomerates are big and unwieldy. Wall Street hates them, because it doesn't know how to value them properly. CEOs and corporate boards are finally getting the message: Nimble is the new big. J&J's split into two companies — one for its consumer products and another for its drugs and medical devices — is the latest shakeup in the health care sector.
Wrong , breaking up into multiple companies. U missed the frickin point—J&J breaks up to dump class actions into one LLC which then goes bankrupt.
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