For the full year, the durable magic of "The Lord of the Rings" helped Time Warner finish with its first annual profit since it merged with AOL in 2001.
Including cuts already made, Tribune said that by year's end, it will have reduced its publishing division by 10% since it merged with Times Mirror and acquired The Times in June 2000.
Dunhill has experienced no hiring problems, although it has run into a union dispute, since it merged the staffs of two of its stores.
His forecast is that there will be winners, which include O2, naturally, as well as Vodafone and Orange, and losers - Virgin has "disappeared" since it merged with cable company NTL and 3 "isn't growing its customer base".
It is the second round of job cuts at Chase since it merged with Chemical three years ago and eliminated 12,000 jobs.
The deal is the latest in a succession of acquisitions by Valeant since it merged with Biovail of Canada in a $3.2 billion deal in 2010.
EDO, which has 30 locations in the United States, including two on Long Island, has occupied the property since it merged with Airborne Instruments Laboratory, another longtime contractor, in 2000.
Al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch has been resurgent (see article) since it merged a year ago with the remnants of the decimated Saudi franchise to relaunch "al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula", boosted by the influx of several veterans of Guantánamo Bay.
The acquisition was H.P.'s first major deal since it merged with Compaq in September 2001 and the first big deal as chief executive for Mark V. Hurd, who took over in March 2005 after Carleton S. Fiorina was ousted.
Though Brach's has been formally based in Chattanooga, Tenn., since it merged with Brock Candy in 1994, most top executives work in Chicago, and will continue to do so after the plant is shut down.
