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Cumming Corporation company history timeline

1991

An enormous step toward that direction was achieved in 1991, when the company acquired Colonial Penn Group Insurance Co. from FPL Group for $150 million.

1993

By the conclusion of 1993, after 15 years of Cumming's and Steinberg's leadership, the value of Leucadia had increased considerably.

1997

1997: Colonial Penn is sold for $1.4 billion.

1999

But Steinberg and Cumming reconsidered their decision to fold up their tent after all and instead distributed $812 million to shareholders in 1999 and reentered the acquisition game.

2002

WilTel returned to the stock exchange, moving from the NYSE to the NASDAQ in December 2002.

Leucadia came to the rescue of another company, the bankrupt Williams Communications, in 2002.

2004

During 2004, Leucadia made moves toward taking control of one of its competitors, MCI. Cumming and Steinberg's track record of a 15-year average annual return of 22 percent aside, they were in a risky situation.

In 2004, with the continued growth of our RF anechoic chamber business, Cuming Microwave purchased Lehman Chambers, a custom construction company and one of our best customers.

2008

In 2008, the company drilled a successful Barnett Shale project in Erath County, Texas which yielded experience in drilling, fracking and producing tight shales.

2018

In 2018, the company re-entered the service sector of the oil and gas business establishing a well service arm for plugging wells.

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