Corporate Profile for The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., dated June 21, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published Date: June 21, 1996 Company Name: The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. (BHP)
Address: 550 California St.
San Francisco, CA
Main Telephone Number: 415/774-2030 Chief Executive Officer: John B. Prescott Chief Financial Officer: Graeme McGregor Investor Relations Contact: Pierre Hirsch Business number: 415/774-2030 e-mail address: hirsch.pierre.pl@bhp.com.au Public Relations Contact: Stedman Ellis Business number: 415/774-2449 URL Address: http://www.bhp.com.au Trading Symbol: BHP Industry: Mining, steel and energy Company description: The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) is a leading global resources company with a history of growth in the world's mining, steel and energy industries. BHP has assets of more than A$30 billion spanning more than 50 countries. BHP has more than 240,000 shareholders in 80 countries. Its shares are listed in Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Formed in 1885 to mine a silver-lead-zinc deposit in Broken Hill in New South Wales New South Wales, state (1991 pop. 5,164,549), 309,443 sq mi (801,457 sq km), SE Australia. It is bounded on the E by the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is the capital. The other principal urban centers are Newcastle, Wagga Wagga, Lismore, Wollongong, and Broken Hill. , the company diversified in the early 1900s into steel-making, and into petroleum in 1960. Today BHP is a significant player in world markets for all four of its major businesses: minerals, copper, steel and petroleum. For example, BHP has the following ranking among major commodity producers in the Western World: -0- -- Second largest producer of iron ore -- Fourth largest producer of black coal -- Second largest producer of copper in concentrate -- Second largest producer of manganese ore -- 13th largest producer of raw steel -- 14th largest publicly owned Publicly owned can refer to:
For further information contact: Pierre Hirsch, 415/774-2030 (investor inquiries); or Stedman Ellis, 415/774-2449 (media inquiries. CONTACT: Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. |
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