conglomerate
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The Singapore gross refining margin, used as a benchmark price reference by the Thai petroleum and energy conglomerate, has been higher than expected, the analyst notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The conglomerate said it is seeking more than US$1.5 billion in damages for the “destruction of the company’s investments” in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In India, the most famous succession drama played out within the Reliance conglomerate after the death of its founder, Dhirubhai Ambani, in 2002.
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
He met with executives from Columbia Broadcasting System and Philco in the United States and flew to Holland to make a pitch, fruitlessly, to the Dutch technology conglomerate Philips.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
After more mergers, it eventually became part of Penguin Random House—by far the largest of the publishing conglomerates, with over 350 imprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
Stocks in the other big three K-pop conglomerates also fell.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 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
The little lake is a crystal cup cut out of the solid conglomerated quartz.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
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
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
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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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