The separation follows what CEO Mike Roman calls “the largest restructuring in the history of the company” last year that shed another 8,500 jobs and significantly reduced its global real estate.

3M (NYSE: MMM) is a company that most people know about but few fully understand. Going well beyond its most visible products like Post-It Notes and Scotch tape, 3M has its fingers in a huge number of ...

3M spun off its health care division Monday morning, saying goodbye to an operation of 20,000 employees and $8 billion in revenue, a quarter of the company's total sales. The separation follows what ...