Word: mergers
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...MERGER MASTER?...
...rest is history—and history well-chronicled in the pages of business journals. His success led the Washington Post to nickname him “merger master,” and even Ledecky confirms he had the Midas’ touch...
...Elsewhere in the two-and-a-half-hour presentation (yes, two and a half hours - the network's strategy is to sell ads through exhaustion) NBC crowed about its recent merger with Universal, home of a movie studio and cable channels from Bravo to Telemundo. "Imagine... two media powers, visionaries from the start..." intoned Katie Couric in a dead-serious filmed intro, as she, Sean Hayes, Jay Leno and Jesse L. Martin tried to convince advertisers of the synergistic possibilities of having Donald Trump and the guy who yells "gooooooooooooooooooal!" during Spanish-language soccer broadcasts under one corporate roof...
Just six months ago, it looked as if Japan's calcified political system had entered a new and enlightened age. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was slowly dragging the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) into the future by racking up incremental but substantial reforms. Meanwhile, a merger between the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Party last fall had created the nation's first credible opposition party of the postwar era. Led by veteran crusading outsider Naoto Kan, the new DPJ promised to enliven Japan's political stage. Vibrant and serious public debates about the nation's most pressing...
...hostile bid for the Strasbourg-based Aventis--to create a French "national champion" in the pill market--and why the government warned Swiss drugmaker Novartis to stop fishing in the Rhine. Sanofi-Aventis will be the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm, after Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. But since the merger announcement, Sanofi's shares have tumbled, in part because investors think $66 billion is too high a price for Aventis, whose big moneymaker, the allergy medicine Allegra, not only competes with Claritin, which is sold over the counter in the U.S., but will soon also square off against several generic...