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conglomerate

[kuhn-glom-er-it, kuhng-, kuhn-glom-uh-reyt, kuhng-] / kənˈglɒm ər ɪt, kəŋ-, kənˈglɒm əˌreɪt, kəŋ- /




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A storied Indian conglomerate that owns the country’s biggest outsourcing firm and makes millions of iPhones for Apple is in the middle of a leadership shake-up that has highlighted the challenges facing India’s family-founded behemoths.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The conglomerate also owns Clayton Homes, a maker of manufactured homes, and other housing-related businesses.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Tapping loans from his insurers had been a calling card of the 66-year-old billionaire’s conglomerate for years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

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 federal government, representing the Osage Nation, had filed a lawsuit against Enel, the Italian energy conglomerate that owned the wind farm.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

SK Group is one of South Korea's chaebols - family-owned conglomerates that dominate the country's economy.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Comcast’s move marks the culmination of an unwinding of vertically integrated companies among the cable, telecom and media conglomerates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

"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

He was fond of attaching to his signature the names of all the innumerable offices he held over the conglomerated States of his realm.

From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

In an era when most multinational firms have given up their old conglomerating ways, Jardines retains a panoply of seemingly unconnected businesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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