Shares in Barratt, which is merging with rival builder Wilson Bowden, gained 2.5p to 976.5p.
Britain's largst drug company, Glaxo Wellcome, which is merging with its rival SmithKline Beecham, reported a 12percentt jump in first quarter sales.
On Sept. 26, the international telecommunications carrier KDD Corporation, which is merging with a rival, will be replaced by the Alps Electric Company.
Peco, which is merging with the Unicom Corporation of Chicago, is expanding to offset revenue lost after regulators ended its monopoly in eastern Pennsylvania.
The Trustees of Composers Recordings, Inc., which is merging with New World Records, deeply mourn the death of our beloved Secretary.
He runs the firm's asset management business as well as the brokerage arm, which is merging with Citigroup's Smith Barney.
Mr. Alpert is leaving the agency, which is merging with Alchemy PR and Marketing, whose principals are Andrea Kalmanovitz and Diane Eichler, Mr. Eichler's wife.
Continental, which is merging with United, plans to fly its 787s with 36 seats in its premium BusinessFirst cabin and 192 in coach.
Regulators also gave tentative approval to a separate joint venture of British Airways and American Airlines with the Spanish flag airline Iberia, which is merging with British Airways.
The News Corporation, for instance, has in the past looked at EMI and Universal Music, part of Seagram, which is merging with Vivendi, but would now be reluctant to enter the music business given these mounting concerns, an executive said.
