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Starting in 1990 as a transport company, Ravatomanga's Sodiat Group expanded into a sprawling conglomerate spanning automotive distribution, aviation, private security, media, construction, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, tourism and Madagascar's lucrative vanilla trade.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Financial Times leads on the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, as he considers merging his two companies SpaceX and Tesla into a "sprawling conglomerate spanning rockets, satellites, social media, robots and cars".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
AstraZeneca added that the collaboration would cover multiple international projects across the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe spanning its core disease areas—cancer, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
After a painful selloff spanning nearly two weeks, the chip sector is on the mend.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Labor on the dam—which satellite photographs show to be a substantial concrete structure spanning a wide river, with turbines and spillways hugging the northern bank—went on around the clock.
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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