Some of the major players -- Hoffman-LaRoche, for example -- have faced hard times, mergers or consolidations and contracted their businesses.
Mr. Staats, 30, who has a wife and two children to support, is emblematic of a changing attitude toward the music business, molded in recent years by layoffs, consolidation and canceled contracts with musicians.
The savings will come from the consolidation of different contracts, but also by shifting some of the city's software needs to the cloud.
Ms. Hall, who prosecutors said was fired in August, was charged with steering an architectural design contract for the consolidation of the bureau's offices, Mr. Morgenthau said.
We discuss when a top firm chooses to induce information sharing and active coordination between its suppliers (consolidation) rather than having them contract at arm's length (delegation).
In all, the agency is seeking consolidation of some 45 separate dredging contracts for the entire 240 miles of port channels into 9 larger and simpler proposals.
Pickings in Afghanistan are thin; there seems little chance of America starting another big war, with the juicy contracts it brings.They forecast consolidation: big firms buying little ones, and more transatlantic tie-ups.
No doubt, she emailed a copy to the government of the Maldives, from which Omnia accepted a juicy contract for advice on "democracy consolidation".
Contraction occurs through consolidation too.
David became president in 1994 and soon undertook a second risk: financing small video chains that were on a consolidation binge, in exchange for long-term contracts that paid Ingram in full whenever the chain had a change of control.
