But such is the intent of Grupo A.C.S., a Spanish construction and building services company, in its audacious bid to acquire Hochtief, a German building conglomerate.
Not every reader will savor her kind remarks about many, many employees, her work with Tarmac, the building conglomerate, or her observations about assorted forms of livestock.
"The days of executives having their own assistants are definitely over," said Bonnie B. Vanoverbeke, chief information officer for Walter Industries, a home-building conglomerate in Tampa.
Former chairman Dennis Kozlowski, closely associated with building the conglomerate, was indicted last week on tax evasion charges on $13m£8.9m9m) of art purchases.
But the indictments dealt a further blow to the image of Samsung and Mr. Lee's family, which South Koreans both admire for building the conglomerate into their best-known global brand and hate for the recurring corruption scandals there.
CRH, a building materials conglomerate, said yesterday that a subsidiary in the United States, Allied Building Products, faces 244 personal injury lawsuits related to asbestos in roofing materials made by others that Allied distributed before CRH acquired it.
An Irish building materials conglomerate, CRH, reported a 2.8percentt increase in yearly net profit, to 640.6 million euros ($782 million), and a 3percentt rise in yearly revenue, to 11.1 billion euros ($13.5 billion), for 2003.
Rather than fail, they flourished, acquiring dozens of companies and building their conglomerate, Danaher, into a company with a market cap in early 2015 of more than $60 billion.
He made his name during the 1980s by building the industrial conglomerate Williams with Sir Nigel Rudd and Brian McGowan.
