What is another word for mergers?

Pronunciation: [mˈɜːd͡ʒəz] (IPA)

Mergers are business transactions that involve the combining of two or more companies into one entity. Synonyms for mergers include amalgamations, consolidations, and acquisitions. Amalgamations refer to the fusion of two or more corporations into a single entity, wherein the resultant entity takes on a new name. Consolidations, on the other hand, describe the combination of several separate companies into a new entity, with each of the original companies ceasing to exist. Acquisitions involve one company acquiring another company by buying all or a majority of its shares. Other synonyms for mergers include takeovers, buyouts, and unions. Regardless of the term used, mergers often involve significant changes to the companies involved, including changes to ownership and management.

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Usage examples for Mergers

A few resourceful men, in order to do away with the evils of unrestricted competition, devised a remedy in the form of mergers.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
Others of less capacity but greater daring saw opportunities for money-making, and a craze for mergers and for the incorporation of private enterprises swept over the country.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
There were nine Enterprise Amusement Theaters now, the newest red-headed pin on the circuit map as far west as Tulsa, their booking route as yet independent of any of the larger and recent vaudeville mergers.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst

Famous quotes with Mergers

  • Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
    Peter DeFazio
  • Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
    Susan George
  • Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
    Jim Rogers
  • I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
    David Ogilvy
  • She put snow on the mountain's / peak for me and took the Gallup Poll of my imagination. / She is both the V-Hold and popular fiction of my life. I write / her letters daily, which I'm then prompted to discard. She / engineered several corporate mergers until I couldn't resist / temptation.
    Carson Cistulli

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