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Greenbrier continues transformation post layoffs External-link
Greenbrier Cos. CEO Bill Furman laid out a transformation plan last month that he said would create a leaner company and deliver more value to shareholders. On Monday, he announced another piece of the plan. The Lake Oswego-based railcar manufacturer plans to retire $52.9 million in convertible senior notes. That's...
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Source: Portland Business News...
May 14, 2013 - 7:06 AM
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Bill Furman: Smokejumper, entrepreneur, movie producer External-link
Greenbrier CEO Bill Furman blasted the state’s business climate last week during an interview in which he said Gunderson — the company’s railcar manufacturing arm — would slash 200-plus jobs. Here are a few things you may or may not have known about Greenbrier, Gunderson and Furman’s film production career. Furman...
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Source: Northwest U.S.
Apr 25, 2013 - 11:15 AM
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Greenbrier's Bill Furman: Smokejumper, entrepreneur, movie producer External-link
Greenbrier CEO Bill Furman blasted the state’s business climate last week during an interview in which he said Gunderson — the company’s railcar manufacturing arm — would slash 200-plus jobs. Here are a few things you may or may not have known about Greenbrier, Gunderson and Furman’s film production career. Furman...
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Source: Portland Business News...
Apr 25, 2013 - 11:15 AM
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Shades of Tim Boyle: Bill Furman’s issues with Portland are not new External-link
The issues were different but the point was similar: The city of Portland had its priorities backwards. Greenbrier Cos. CEO Bill Furman’s recent criticisms of the city of Portland aren’t the first time a prominent CEO has taken the city to task. Eight years ago, Columbia Sportswear leader Tim Boyle famously told th...
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Source: Portland Business News...
Apr 24, 2013 - 2:50 PM
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What Bill Furman learned from Carl Icahn External-link
The Greenbrier Cos. CEO Bill Furman is on a mission. After rejecting Carl Icahn's $22 per share offer in December, Furman is out to prove that the company deserves a higher valuation. Greenbrier (NYSE: GBX) has since set a couple of key goals and stated its intention to be more transparent to shareholders. By Aug...
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Source: Portland Business News...
Apr 19, 2013 - 2:50 PM
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Greenbrier axes 200-plus Gunderson jobs as CEO criticizes business climate External-link
Stymied by delays in a coal export proposal and by a railcar customer’s buying habits, The Greenbrier Cos. plans to lay off more than 200 workers at its Gunderson LLC plant in Northwest Portland. The layoffs, or furloughs as Greenbrier CEO Bill Furman prefers to call them, will start within a few months. Meanwhile,...
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Source: Portland Business News...
Apr 19, 2013 - 2:29 PM
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Greenbrier again rejects Carl Icahn's offer External-link
A 10 percent bump in Carl Icahn's offer was not enough to win over the management and board of the Greenbrier Cos. The Lake Oswego-based maker of railcars and barges rejected the offer of approximately $597 million, or $22 per share, on Thursday, calling it "unacceptable." The offer, made through Icahn's ...
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Source: Portland Business News...
Dec 21, 2012 - 6:56 AM
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Icahn's American Railcar ups Greenbrier offer by 10% External-link
Carl Icahn's American Railcar has increased its bid to acquire the Greenbrier Cos. to $597 million, or $22 dollars a share, a 10 percent increase from an offer made on Tuesday. The bump was made public in a curt letter penned by Icahn Enterprises CEO Daniel Ninivaggi to his Greenbrier counterpart Bill Furman. In t...
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Source: Portland Business News...
Dec 19, 2012 - 2:51 PM
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