THE HISTORY

How New York-based Buck Consultants has evolved

1916: Founded by George B. Buck.

1994: Buck Consultants offers to acquire much larger rival Towers Perrin. Offer is rejected.

1996: Buck Consultants buys W.F. Corroon benefit consulting unit from broker Willis Corroon Group P.L.C.

1997: Mellon Bank Corp. acquires Buck Consultants for $225 million.

2002: Mellon Financial Corp. acquires Unifi Network from PricewaterhouseCoopers. L.L.P. for $275 million and combines Unifi with its Buck Consulting unit.

2005: Affiliated Computer Services Inc. buys Mellon's benefit consulting and services unit for $465 million. It later renames the unit Buck Consultants.