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...merger deal had been under discussion for two months. Finally, all the intricacies had been worked out. The last step in sealing the agreement turned out to be...a moonlight disco-dancing cruise...
...word merger conjures up only thoughts of deals to join corporate giants like Exxon and Mobil, conjure again. What headline writers call "merger madness" is also breaking out among relatively pint-size companies, which seal new relationships in the cafeteria and celebrate with interpersonal mingling that can involve the whole staff. These not-so-big deals sometimes seem to occur in a business world altogether different from the one inhabited by the megabillion-bucks monsters. Witness the just completed merger of Personify and Anubis, two California e-commerce companies...
...time of the merger, the combined revenues of Gresham and Open Microsystems totaled roughly $30 million. In only a year and a half, that has grown to $50 million. For Groves, though, the merger was a success in another sense--as "a way to build a bridge that would eventually get me out of there. My m.o. is to build something quickly" and then move on. He has no intention of emulating Oracle founder and still chief Larry Ellison. Oracle, Groves remarks, "got really big, and that's terrible because you can never escape from...
According to Sheerr, the merger agreement that took effect Oct. 1 specifically called for a Dean's Council that would include eight of the Radcliffe trustees who helped negotiate the merger...
...first permanent dean chosen to lead the Institute--expected to be named in the next year--will have the power to appoint her own council. Yet, according to the merger agreement, this group too must include eight members of the now defunct board of trustees...