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...Egypt in 1956, the company became largely a financial operator. It was nationalized in turn by the Socialist government of François Mitterrand in 1982, a disastrous move that was reversed in 1987, one year before the company got a big piece of Belgium's electricity industry through a merger with the Société Générale de Belgique. Lyonnaise, for its part, had been shorn of its gas and electricity assets by France's nationalization efforts in 1946. The two merged completely in 1997 and took the common name Suez...
With global travel in its best shape in years, Air France is enjoying the fruits of its 2003 merger with Dutch airline KLM, creating a dual-hub network with considerable global reach. Skeptics predicted the marriage would founder on Dutch resentment of notoriously overbearing French handling of past binational mergers. Yet the partnership has not only functioned better than management or labor had hoped, but has also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with...
...savior†of the radio industry, is in for its biggest change yet.XM and Sirius, the nation’s only two providers, are set to merge for a whopping $4.8 billion. As the press, the politicians, and the interest groups debate the legality and wisdom of the merger, a larger question goes unasked: is satellite radio really the future of the radio industry?In its history, XM radio has never made a profit. Sirius has been beset with similar financial woes. Other than a fewconfused luxury car owners, consumers have basically ignored the industry. Yet despite falling stocks...
Still, Whole Foods is expanding rapidly. It recently said it would acquire Wild Oats Markets Inc.; the merger would give Whole Foods an additional 112 locations in North America. Already, many Americans have come to see Whole Foods as the repository of both their dietary hopes and fears--the place we can buy not only organic arugula but a decadent chocolate bar too. I have shopped at Whole Foods off and on since 1990, when I had a summer job in Austin, Texas, where Whole Foods began in 1980. If I was going to decide whether to buy organic...
...billion Value of the proposed merger of XM and Sirius, the only companies licensed to offer satellite radio...