Since the turn of the 20th century, companies have picked nebulous names such as Amalgamated Holdings Limited and Consolidated Products Incorporated after undergoing mergers and reorganizations.
PCTs had recently undergone mergers and become essentially commissioning organisations, not providers.
In the past few years, several medical school-owned hospitals and medical school-affiliated hospitals have undergone mergers, acquisitions, or closures [ 3].
Firms that had undergone merger were classified under the acquired category.
GC clusters can potentially undergo merger and separation (fusion and fission) in a bidirectional manner, but the abundance of each GC cluster unit depends on its own mobile activity and functional constraint under selection.
Throughout the 20th Century the company underwent various mergers and acquisitions until Tetley's employed thousands of workers in Leeds and owned about 1,000 pubs.
The firm underwent several mergers in the following century, including with local rival William Younger's, and later with Newcastle Breweries to form Scottish & Newcastle.
On their own, BA and Iberia face an uncertain future: Lufthansa and Air France-KLM have already undergone successful mergers recently, giving them far greater economies of scale and reach.
(The company, now of Peapack, N.J., has since undergone two mergers, one with Upjohn in 1995, and another this year, with Monsanto).
