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Business/Financial

ITT Separates Into Three Publicly Traded Companies

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Thursday, January 13th, 2011

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ITT Corp. [ITT] yesterday said its board of directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate the company's businesses into three distinct, publicly traded companies. Under the plan, ITT would execute tax-free spinoffs to shareholders of its water-related businesses and its Defense & information Solutions segment. Following completion of the transaction, ITT will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange as an industrial company that supplies highly engineered solutions in the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets, the…

Congress

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