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Use the merger type when two companies, typically equal in size, join together to form one company. Examples include:
- Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham form GlaxoSmithKline
- SBC and AT&T form a new AT&T Inc If one company becomes a subsidiary of the other, that typically means they...
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| London and North Western Railway |
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The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR;) was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham...
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1923 | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | |
| London and South Western Railway |
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The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR;) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Its network extended from London to Plymouth via Salisbury and Exeter, with branches to Ilfracombe and Padstow and via Southampton to Bournemouth and...
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1923 | Southern Railway | |
| Telepictures |
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Telepictures (also known as Telepictures Productions, Telepictures Distribution, Telepictures Corporation) is an American production company, currently operating as a label of Warner Bros. Television, with Hilary Estey McLoughlin currently serving...
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1986 | Lorimar-Telepictures | |
| Lorimar Productions |
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Lorimar, later known as Lorimar Television, was an American television production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros., active from 1968-1993. It was founded by Irwin Molasky, Merv Adelson and Lee Rich, who named the company after...
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| Time Inc. |
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Time Inc. is a major subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 merger of the original Time Inc. and Warner Communications. It publishes 130 magazines, most notably its namesake, Time. Other magazines include...
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1990 | Time Warner | |
| Warner Communications |
Warner Communications was established in 1972 when Kinney National Company spun off its non-entertainment assets, due to a financial scandal over its parking operations and changed its name.
It was the parent company for Warner Bros. Pictures and...
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| Hachette |
Hachette is a large French media group, now a multinational.
Originally, Hachette was a bookshop and publishing company set up by Louis Hachette in 1826.
As of 2004, Hachette forms part of the Lagardère Media group, and is diversifying. Hachette now...
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1992 | Matra Hachette | ||
| Matra |
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Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to automobile, bicycles, aeronautics and weaponry which from 1994 was a subsidiary of Lagardère Group and which now operates under that name....
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| Matra Hachette | 1996 | Lagardère Group | |||
| Midland Counties Railway |
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The Midland Counties Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1832 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, to London. The MCR system...
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1844 | Midland Railway | |
| Midland Railway |
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The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
Initially the MR's main line, now known as the Midland Main Line, connected the East Midlands to...
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1923 | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | |
| MGM Grand Las Vegas |
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The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the second largest hotel in the world and second largest hotel resort complex in the United States behind The Venetian. The MGM Grand was...
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May 2000 | MGM Mirage | |
| Mirage Resorts |
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Mirage Resorts was an American corporation that owned and operated hotel-casinos. It was created in 1989, having previously been called Golden Nugget Companies. Much of the financing was obtained in cooperation with Mike Milken.
The company was...
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| Mushroom Records |
Mushroom Records is an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. As of 2006 it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros....
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1998 | Festival Mushroom Records | ||
| TotalFina | TotalFinaElf | ||||
| Elf Aquitaine |
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Elf Aquitaine was a French oil company which merged with TotalFina to form TotalFinaElf. The new company changed its name to Total in 2003. Elf has been maintained as a major brand of Total.
Elf Aquitaine's heritage is rooted among three French oil...
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| McDonnell Douglas |
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McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It formed from a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967. McDonnell Douglas was...
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1997 | Boeing | |
| Martin Marietta |
Martin Marietta Corporation was founded in 1961 through the merger of The Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. The combined company became a leader in aggregates, cement, chemicals, aerospace, and electronics.
In 1982 Martin Marietta...
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1995 | Lockheed Martin | ||
| Lockheed Corporation |
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The Lockheed Corporation (originally Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company) was an American aerospace company founded in 1912 which merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company was established in...
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| British European Airways |
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British European Airways (BEA) or British European Airways Corporation was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974. The airline operated European and North African routes from airports around the United Kingdom. BEA was the largest...
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British Airways | ||
| British Overseas Airways Corporation |
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The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state airline from 1939 until 1946 and the long-haul British state airline from 1946 to 1974. The company started life with a merger between Imperial Airways Ltd. and British Airways...
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| Burlington Northern Railroad |
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The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company operating between 1970 and 1996. Its successor-in-interest is the BNSF Railway, which operates the trackage formerly owned by the Burlington Northern....
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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. | ||
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
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The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The company was first chartered in February 1859. Although the railway was named in part for the...
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| Conoco Inc. |
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Conoco Inc. was an American oil company founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. It is now a brand of gasoline and service station in the United States which belongs to the ConocoPhillips Company.
Based in Ogden, Utah, the...
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Aug 30, 2002 | ConocoPhillips | |
| Phillips Petroleum |
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Phillips Petroleum Company was founded in 1917 by L.E. Phillips and Frank Phillips, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Their younger brother Waite Phillips was the benefactor of Philmont Scout Ranch.
Phillips Petroleum was headquartered in Bartlesville,...
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| Livingston Gunn Projects | GHA Livigunn | ||||
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| Sir M MacDonald & Partners | Mott MacDonald | ||||
| Mott, Hay and Anderson |
Mott, Hay and Anderson (MHA) was a successful 20th century firm of consulting civil engineers based in the United Kingdom. The company traded until 1989, when it merged with Sir M. MacDonald & Partners to form Mott MacDonald.
The company was founded...
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| Veryards Opus | Opus International Group | ||||
| Evans Grant Opus | Opus International Group | ||||
| Opus HCL | Opus International Group | ||||
| Sverdrup Civil | 1999 | Jacobs Engineering Group | |||
| Jacobs Engineering Group |
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with over 57,000 employees and revenues exceeding $11.0 billion, provides technical, professional, and construction services globally. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, it was...
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| Presbyterian Hospital | NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital | ||||
| New York Hospital | NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital | ||||
| Bergen Brunswig Corporation | Aug 2001 | AmerisourceBergen | |||
| AmeriSource Health Corporation | Aug 2001 | AmerisourceBergen | |||
| Interbrew |
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Interbrew was a large Belgium-based brewing company which owned many internationally known beers, as well as some smaller local beers. In 2004 Interbrew merged with Brazilian brewer AmBev to form InBev, which is the now largest brewer in the world...
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2004 | InBev | |
| AmBev |
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AmBev (BM&F; Bovespa: AMBV3, AMBV4 / NYSE: ABVC), formally Companhia de Bebidas das Américas (official English translation: "American Beverage Company", hence the name "AmBev") is a subsidiary of global brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev and is...
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2004 | InBev | |
| Piedboeuf Brewery | 1987 | Interbrew | |||
| Artois Brewery | 1987 | Interbrew | |||
| Aérospatiale |
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Aérospatiale was a French aerospace manufacturer that built both civilian and military aircraft, rockets and satellites. It was originally known as Société Nationale d'Industrie Aérospatiale (SNIAS). The former assets of Aérospatiale are now part of...
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1999 | Aérospatiale-Matra | |
| Sega |
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Sega Corporation (株式会社セガ, Kabushiki-kaisha Sega) is a multinational video game software and hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. The company had success with both arcades and...
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| Amusement Vision |
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Amusement Vision, Ltd. is a Japanese video game developer formerly known as Sega AM4. AM4 was a special research department of Sega known for the development of arcade games such as Daytona USA.
Amusement Vision was formed in 2000 and was then...
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| Data Resources Inc. |
Data Resources Inc or DRI was co-founded in 1969 by Donald Marron and Otto Eckstein. Marron is best known as the former CEO of PaineWebber and founder of Lightyear Capital. Eckstein was a Harvard University economics professor, economic consultant...
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2001 | Global Insight | ||
| Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates |
Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc (WEFA Inc) was a world-leading economics forecasting and consulting organisation founded by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Lawrence R. Klein.
WEFA Inc was a spinoff of the Wharton School of the University of...
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| Enix |
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The Enix Corporation (株式会社エニックス, Kabushiki-gaisha Enikkusu) was a Japanese company that produced video games, Anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center (株式会社営団社募集サービスセンター,...
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2003 | Square Enix | |
| Square Co. |
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Square Co., Ltd. (株式会社スクウェア, Kabushiki-gaisha Sukuwea) was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became part of Square Enix.
Squaresoft was also a brand name used by Square...
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| Chevron Corporation |
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is an energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA, and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining,...
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| Texaco |
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Texaco ("The Texas Company") is the name of an American oil retail brand. Its flagship product is its fuel, "Texaco with Techron". It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand.
Texaco was an independent company until it merged into Chevron Corporation...
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| Rauma |
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Rauma (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈrɑumɑ], Swedish: Raumo) is a town and municipality of ca. 39,700 (30 June 2009 ) inhabitants on the west coast of Finland, 92 kilometres (57 mi) north of Turku, and 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Pori. Granted town...
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Metso | ||
| Valmet |
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Valmet Oy was a Finnish state-owned company. Valmet (originally Valtion Metallitehtaat — English: State Metalworks) was formed in 1951, when the state of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union...
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| Agusta |
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Agusta (now part of AgustaWestland) is an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It is based in the province of Varese, northern Italy, with its main manufacturing plant being at Samarate. It is a subsidiary of Finmeccanica. The company was founded by...
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2000 | AgustaWestland | |
| Westland Aircraft |
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Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil in Somerset. Formed as a separate company by separation from Petters Ltd just before the start of the Second World War, Westland had been building aircraft since 1915. During...
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| Alcatel |
Alcatel SA was a global company, headquartered in France that provided hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises. Alcatel sells equipment for mobile and fixed voice communication networks, data networks...
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Dec 1, 2006 | Alcatel-Lucent | ||
| Lucent Technologies |
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Lucent Technologies was a technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T; Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. It was spun off from AT&T; on September 30, 1996.
Lucent merged with Alcatel SA of France to form Alcatel...
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| Bank One Corporation |
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Bank One Corporation, based in Chicago, Illinois, was the sixth-largest bank in the United States. It traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol ONE. The company merged with JPMorgan Chase & Co. on July 1, 2004.
The bank traces its...
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2004 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | |
| JPMorgan | 2000 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | |||
| Chase Manhattan Corporation |
The Chase Manhattan Corporation was a bank holding company formed as parent of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
During its time as the parent company, it was led in succession by David Rockefeller, Willard C. Butcher, and Thomas G. Labrecque.
In 1996, it...
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| JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It has operations in 60 countries. It is a leader in financial services with assets of $2 trillion, and the largest market capitalization and third largest deposit...
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| Glaxo Laboratories | GlaxoWellcome | ||||
| Burroughs Wellcome & Company | |||||
| SmithKline Beecham | GlaxoSmithKline | ||||
| GlaxoWellcome |
GlaxoWellcome was a medicine wholeseller. It merged with SmithKline Beecham in 2000 to form GlaxoSmithKline.
1978 - Through the acquisition of Meyer Laboratories Inc, Glaxo's business in the US is started, to become Glaxo Inc from 1980. The broad...
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| Beecham |
Beecham is a British pharmaceutical company. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Beecham, after having merged with SmithKline Beckman, merged with GlaxoWellcome to become GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Beecham was the family business of Thomas...
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SmithKline Beecham | |||
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| Philip Morris USA |
Philip Morris USA is the United States tobacco division of Altria Group, Inc. Philip Morris USA brands include Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Merit, Parliament, Alpine, Basic, Cambridge, Bucks, Chesterfield, Collector's Choice, Commander, English Ovals,...
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| Kraft Foods |
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Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second-largest in the world (after Nestlé SA). It markets many brands in more than 155 countries.
The company is headquartered in...
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| John Taylor & Sons | 1987 | Acer Consultants | |||
| Freeman, Fox and Partners | |||||
| Wallace Evans and Partners | 1993 | Hyder Consulting | |||
| Acer Consultants | |||||
| Caremark Rx |
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Caremark Pharmacy Services is a prescription benefit management subsidiary of CVS Caremark Corporation, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Caremark, formerly known as Caremark Rx, was founded in 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama as MedPartners, Inc....
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| CVS Corporation |
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CVS/pharmacy (commonly called CVS) is the largest pharmacy chain in the United States, with approximately 6,900 stores across 45 states and in Puerto Rico. As the retail pharmacy division of CVS Caremark, it sells prescription drugs and a wide...
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| Caremark Rx |
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Caremark Pharmacy Services is a prescription benefit management subsidiary of CVS Caremark Corporation, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Caremark, formerly known as Caremark Rx, was founded in 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama as MedPartners, Inc....
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Mar 24, 2007 | CVS Caremark Corporation | |
| CVS Corporation |
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CVS/pharmacy (commonly called CVS) is the largest pharmacy chain in the United States, with approximately 6,900 stores across 45 states and in Puerto Rico. As the retail pharmacy division of CVS Caremark, it sells prescription drugs and a wide...
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CVS Caremark Corporation | ||
| General Foods |
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General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions. In November,...
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1989 | Kraft General Foods | |
| Kraft Foods |
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Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second-largest in the world (after Nestlé SA). It markets many brands in more than 155 countries.
The company is headquartered in...
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| Dart Industries | Dart & Kraft | ||||
| Kraft Foods |
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Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second-largest in the world (after Nestlé SA). It markets many brands in more than 155 countries.
The company is headquartered in...
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| Jefferson Smurfit Corporation | 1998 | Smurfit-Stone Container | |||
| Container Corporation of America |
Container Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in 1926 and manufactures corrugated boxes. In 1986, Mobil Corporation sold CCA to the Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, which merged with the Stone Container Corporation in 1998 to become part of the...
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| Bank of Boston | 1996 | BankBoston | |||
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| Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates |
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Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates was founded in 1889 as Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company in Adams, Massachusetts. By 1917 the company was capitalized at $2,500,000 and contained over 260,000 ring and mule spindles and 6,500 looms for the...
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1955 | Berkshire Hathaway | |
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| Citicorp | Oct 8, 1998 | Citigroup | |||
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| NationsBank |
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NationsBank was one of the largest banking corporations in the United States, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1998, it acquired BankAmerica to become Bank of America.
Commercial National Bank (CNB), the earliest forerunner of NationsBank, was...
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1997 | Bank of America | |
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| Gaz de France |
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Gaz de France (GDF) was a French company which produced, transported and sold natural gas around the world, especially in France, its main market. The company was also particularly active in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany as well as other...
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Jul 22, 2008 | GDF Suez | |
| SUEZ |
Suez S.A. was a leading French-based multinational corporation, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management. Suez was result of a 1997 merger between the Compagnie de Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux, a...
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| VEBA |
VEBA AG (originally from Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Bergwerks Aktiengesellschaft, i.e. "United Electricity and Mining Corporation") was a German energy company. VEBA was founded in 1929 as a holding company owned by the state of Prussia, and was...
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| Travelers Property Casualty Corp | 2004 | Travelers Co. | |||
