Corporate Breakups and Divestitures

Named events in which a company split into separate independent entities, spun off a division, or sold a business unit to another owner, including demergers, breakups and the sale of a subsidiary or product line. Belongs here: any event whose defining act is a company becoming smaller or dividing rather than combining, whether voluntary or the result of a prior regulatory or antitrust action. Does not belong here: the antitrust case or investigation that may have led to a breakup, grouped under Antitrust and Regulatory Actions, and events where two companies joined together, grouped under Mergers and Acquisitions.