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.
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.
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.
WNET, Channel 13, the nation's largest public television station, is expected to merge operations with WLIW, Channel 21, the Long Island-based public television station that is the country's fourth-largest, after a vote by the WLIW board yesterday.
Meanwhile, Universal, EMI and America Online, which is expected to merge with Warner Music's parent, Time Warner, are developing separate subscription services that would give users access to the individual labels' catalogs for a flat fee.
The broadcaster says it is expecting to merge with XM Satellite Radio at the end of the year, which may help it get back into shape.
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.
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.
Books, once they are digitised and hyperlinked, are expected to merge into a world brain.In 2007 this nonsense will subside, and with much less collateral damage than was caused during the dotcom bust.
