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conglomerate

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




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The Hong Kong-based conglomerate could try again next year if conditions improve for the health and beauty retailer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

They say Nine’s upgraded cost outlook gives the Australian media conglomerate some operating leverage and they see potential for this to improve further if Nine can arrest top-line declines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

The Omaha, Neb. conglomerate, now with Warren Buffett’s son Howard as chairman and Greg Abel as chief executive, also announced $9.6 billion of stock buybacks during the third quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Prince Group's China-born founder Chen Zhi was extradited by Phnom Penh to China in January, months after the conglomerate was sanctioned by the US and UK governments for scamming.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

“You had the whole McKay conglomerate in the soup today.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Other food conglomerates have shed ice-cream operations as a cost cutting measure, citing supply-chain mismatch and operational drag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 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 began as a textile company in 1953 but quickly grew across a wide swath of industries to become one of South Korea's biggest conglomerates.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

"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

Ann Packet, of slow ideas herself, and slower still in having other ideas instilled into her, thought that the missing parcel was connected with the missing lodger, and so conglomerated matters irremediably.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson

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

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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