conglomerate
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The chart on X from Michael Batnick, managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management, showed what he says is the enduring strength of shares in conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Fridman, a Russian-Israeli citizen born in Ukraine, is the founder of the Alfa Group investment conglomerate, with key interests in energy and banking.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Howie Buffett’s appointment as chairman ushers in a new era at Berkshire, and puts the conglomerate in uncharted territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But it struggled after Swiss watch and jewelry conglomerate Richemont bought a majority stake in 2010.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“You had the whole McKay conglomerate in the soup today.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Now, pressure from authorities to list the main holding vehicle for the group’s sprawling interests has set off an internal battle that threatens the future of one of India’s most storied conglomerates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
I’m talking about the five Japanese conglomerates, or “trading houses,” in which Buffett has been investing for six years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
His portfolio, taken together, suggests a particular interest in the invisible forces governing everyday life: particulates, sundown, industrial produce conglomerates.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
SK Group is one of South Korea's chaebols - family-owned conglomerates that dominate the country's economy.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Self- worth tends to be narrowly defined by admission to a few highly selective universities and prestigious, high-paying jobs at conglomerates like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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"All of these are just in a kind of conglomerated business under Elon Musk's name."
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Late on Monday, Abu Dhabi-based conglomerated International Holding Co. said it will make a $381 million investment into Adani Enterprises.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
The former is supposed to lead to the latter, as it seemingly has for the five companies conglomerated under the intimidating acronym FAANG.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
I’ve written extensively elsewhere with co-authors about why it makes sense for media companies to break apart rather than stay conglomerated.
From Forbes ● Mar. 26, 2015
The alleged odor of burnt flesh coming from the enormous mass of conglomerated timber and iron lodged in the cul-de-sac formed by the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge is extremely mythical.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker
Possible answers invoke myriad world-making methods, from titanic impacts to the gluing together of spaceborne hail, where the conglomerating force of gravity may battle disruptions from magnetic whirlpools that nascent worlds are thought to encounter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
“The Globes have exhibited some amount of prescience in conglomerating film and television,” said Matti Leshem, a movie producer and the chief executive of Protagonist, a Hollywood branding company.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2013
Maurice Greenberg, a Russian immigrant, started the Connecticut Leather Co. in Hartford in 1932 to sell supplies to shoemakers, but his sons Arnold and Leonard began conglomerating in the 1960s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With such sales, no wonder the conglomerates are conglomerating in the record business.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In June the military chiefs at Washington were vainly doing all that military men could do to make something like the beginnings of an army out of the conglomerating mass.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
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