Adolf Hitler's policy of military conquest switched the Krupp combine back to armament products.
And there will be £100m or more of savings from combining back offices and overlapping operations in the UK, Ireland and Sweden.
Some, like the science and research councils, will be told to combine back office functions while others will under-go a full-scale mergers.
Bigness might work in traditional publishing: Magazines have a heavy manufacturing component, so combining back office operations to achieve savings on production, printing and paper makes sense.
"The board of Aviva believes that the combination with Friends Life would deliver significantly higher cashflows enhanced by substantial synergies, principally through operating efficiencies in the combined back books and the removal of overlapping overheads," said the company.
But the former Coventry and Rochdale forward has struggled with a combined back and calf injury since last season's play-off final defeat by Bradford.
After surgery, the participants will be randomized into either the combined back-specific (combination of strength training and training of control of the neutral lumbar spine position) and aerobic training arm or to the control arm.
Two independent agencies in New York are combining back-office operations to cut costs.
A regional system combining back-office functions like bill collection made the billing project unnecessary, the chief executive, Jack Bovender, said.
If successful, both buyers would see savings in combining back-office functions and pooling the fleets of various brands.
The sale included combined back-office operations like computer systems, billing and order processing departments for the consumer publishing divisions as well as the others.
