conglomerate
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Earlier this year, Japanese trading conglomerate and LNG operator Mitsubishi bought gas assets for $5.2 billion from private-market investors including the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, RedBird Capital Partners and Aethon Energy Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The conglomerate pared its stakes in financial companies, including Bank of America, Capital One and Ally Financial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The technology conglomerate posted revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of $17.3 billion, up 18% from a year earlier and higher than analysts’ consensus estimate of $16.8 billion, according to FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The veteran businessman had originally helmed the parks-to-movies conglomerate between 2005 and 2020, overseeing an expansion that brought mega-franchises like "Star Wars" into the Disney stable, making himself one of Hollywood's most indispensable executives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Sidley & Austin was representing the chemical conglomerate Union Carbide in an antitrust trial involving the sale of one of its business holdings.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
"We've been putting solar panels on our malls just to save on energy," Frederic DyBuncio, president and CEO of SM Investments Corp, told AFP, adding that the country's other conglomerates were doing the same.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Companies rarely welcome activists, and Korea has historically been especially inhospitable—in part because of the sprawling, family-controlled conglomerates called chaebols that still dominate the market today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Together with Disney, Universal, and Sony, just four conglomerates would control 86% percent of that market.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
It was the boom time, and the Wall Street banks and management consultants and insurance conglomerates were crowding the bulletin boards looking for talent.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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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
It is more probable that they were at length fast frozen up in some inlet, or that small floating fields of ice have conglomerated around them, and bound them in icy fetters to the mainland.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 by William Chambers
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
With such sales, no wonder the conglomerates are conglomerating in the record business.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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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