The company, based in Bartlesville, Okla., expects to merge with a rival, Conoco, to create the seventh-biggest company, according to market value, and the nation's third-largest oil company, based on revenue.
Comcast is expected to merge it with its own animation unit, Illumination Entertainment.
Two large wildfires in northwest Colorado have burned a combined 30,000 acres and are expected to merge this week.
Both Citigroup and Banamex had individual pension fund companies, and they were expected to merge the two.
Carnival is expected to merge next year with P & O Princess Cruises, a London company that is also traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
As a consequence, Virgin Atlantic is expected to merge with a larger carrier or join an airline alliance, pending a strategic review being carried out by Deutsche Bank.
The findings here — especially the substantial number of smaller banks that expect to merge in the next few years — is consistent with this prediction.
Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS, which is expected to merge with Lloyds, will probably be forced to suspend dividends to ordinary shareholders, revamp its compensation, improve loans to small businesses and accept government-appointed managers on its boards.
To add to that corporate image, Killington and its eight sister resorts are expected to merge next month with an even larger entity -- Meristar Hotels and Resorts -- in a deal orchestrated by Killington's owner, the American Skiing Company.
Whatever Mr. Sidgmore does, he is likely to opt for a plan that is more formal than the one his predecessor, Mr. Ebbers, instituted when WorldCom's top management was expecting to merge with Sprint and continue growing.
F5 Health & Fitness F5 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 Fertilizer Makers Seen in Deal Cargill, the privately held agriculture products giant, is expected to merge its fertilizer business with IMC Global, executives close to the negotiations said.
