M. W. Kellogg
An American company, part of the Kellogg group of companies, with a British subsidiary of similar name.
1901 The M. W. Kellogg Company was established in New York City.
1905 The company was incorporated; its headquarters were moved to Jersey City. Initially Kellogg's main business was power plant construction and fabrication of power plant components, but the development of hammer forge welding techniques enabled the company to move into refining as the petroleum industry developed.
1920 Undertook its first process engineering work.
1944 Acquired by Pullman Incorporated
1970 Kellogg moved to Houston, Texas
1978 Wheelabrator-Frye Inc acquired M. W. Kellogg which doubled its Engineering division's revenues and quadrupled its earnings.
1981 Kellogg Rust Inc., a holding company that directed the two subsidiaries' international activities, was formed.
1983 Wheelabrator merged with the Signal Companies and was renamed Signal Environmental Systems. Rust, as a result, became a part of a multi-tiered conglomerate. Kellogg Rust continued to grow, as it performed many of ultimate parent Signal's engineering functions.
1984 Kellogg Rust Constructors Ltd was incorporated, builders of offshore oil and gas platforms
1985 The Signal Companies merged with the Allied Corporation - Wheelabrator and its Kellogg Rust subsidiaries were some of the 35 non-core units identified that would be spun off.
Wheelabrator took back its name, and the 35 businesses were combined under a holding company, The Henley Group, which was divested as a new conglomerate.
1986 The Kellogg Rust holding company was dissolved and its construction activities were divided between the two primary entities.
c.1986 Kellogg was renamed M W Kellogg International Ltd
1987 Wheelabrator and its Rust International Corp. subsidiary were spun off from The Henley Group through a public offering.
1988 Kellogg International Corporation was acquired by Dresser Industries
c.1998 Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries - M. W. Kellogg was merged with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root.
2011 British subsidiary renamed Kellogg Brown and Root International (MWK) Ltd
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- [1] Company history