Sentence examples for latest merger from inspiring English sources

The deal is the latest merger in the steel industry.

Nick Kalivas, vice president for financial research at MF Global, said the latest merger had led to talk of further consolidation in the transportation sector.

In 2001, Nestlé paid $10.3 billion for Ralston Purina, an American pet-food company.Even before the latest merger there was plenty of gossip about possible deals.

The latest merger talks come just a week after United and US Airways resumed their own off-again, on-again attempts at combining operations.

Even before the latest merger, only one party of any size, the Democrats, offered any resistance at all to Mr Thaksin.

That is up from $97.6 billion, or 15 percent of all deals through March 3, 2007, the latest merger boom year.

Again, the latest mergers and acquisitions have tended to benefit headquarters functions located outside New Jersey.

As we noted in this week's print edition, the valuation of firms in the latest mergers and acquisitions boom appears to be reaching dangerous levels.

A bigger drug firm also requires more products to keep its enlarged sales force busy which leads straight to the next deal.Are these latest mergers any more likely to succeed?

Life insurers are one of few sectors that have been immune to the latest mergers and acquisitions boom, but the City has long believed that a tie-up between Aviva and the Pru was just a matter of time.

The message sent out to the market is that future deals involving troubled companies could well face last-minute reversals if managers feel that the government will offer less demanding terms.Who thrives in the end?One big unanswered question is whether the latest mergers will perform any better than those during other waves of mergers.