Sabic
May 22 2007, Rahul

General Electric discloses its plan to sell its plastics unit to Saudi petrochemicals manufacturer Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) for $11.6 billion.

The deal for the G.E. division, which employees 11,000 in 20 countries, is one of the...

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