Over the past six months, there has been considerable merger and acquisition activity in the base metal mining sector, in large part due to increasing demand from the industrializing economies of China and India.
Last year may have seen a considerable degree of mergers and acquisitions (although the number of transactions were down 27percenttheireir average size was up 60percentt), but it's not clear what any of them are supposed to mean.
The LSE's chief executive Xavier Rolet, who will head the new enlarged business said it was "an incredibly exciting merger with considerable growth opportunities".
If reading electronic books becomes popular -- a considerable uncertainty today -- a merger would create a company with enormous power over the future shape of the book business.
And a merger would bring considerable economies of scale.Yet buying Clear Channel Outdoor would not be easy.
A considerable challenge in the proposed merger, which was first reported by the online edition of The Wall Street Journal, is reconciling the two firms' compensation systems.
Brady, who had expanded a considerable family fortune through utility-company mergers, died in 1930.
Live Nation's merger with Ticketmaster created considerable discontent among venue owners and promoters who oppose market dominance.
Their appearance in Yemen is therefore a considerable embarrassment to the Saudi authorities.The merger is a practical response to developments in both Saudi Arabia and Yemen over recent years.
Like Boots, Gala Coral is privately owned and Hornby has stayed out of the limelight, but if he remained after a merger he would again wield considerable power at a company owned by pension funds.
