But it could also pave the way for a merger of all three firms.
Vasella, 47, knew that he had inherited a merger of weakness, as most deals in the drug industry are.
Recall the latter issue was placed in summer 2008 to back a merger of Sirius and XM.
Sinha has made a small beginning by abolishing four secretary-level posts through a merger of federal departments.
The result was a merger of the lists and the formation of LPI.
The difference in the latest case, a merger of Gaz de France and Suez, is the perception of indecent haste.
The new environmental management body is being created through a merger of the Countryside Council, Environment Agency and Forestry Commission Wales.
In theory, regulators might ride to Mr Eisner's rescue and block a merger of Disney and Comcast, but it seems unlikely.
Expect to see a lot about how this is a merger of equals, with a headquarters and chief executive in New York.
Hanvit is the result of a merger of two ailing giants, No. 3 Hanil Bank and No. 6 Commercial Bank of Korea.
Mr Seifert's promised land is a merger of all Europe's stock exchanges.
In 1998 the Germans returned with a deal pitched as a merger of equals, though it was not seen as such by most Americans.
Rather than a merger of equals, it still looks to some Canadians like a takeover of the moderate Progressive Conservatives by the western-based Alliance.
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He has said his preference would be the creation of a new entrepreneurial university for the region rather than a merger of existing institutions.
However, the committee decided on a merger of Mersey Street School, Strand Primary School and Sydenham Infants, which would mean closure for Mersey Street.
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Huntsman also said it's possible that Apollo and Hexion were just trying to defeat a merger of Huntsman and Basell to protect Hexion's market share.
This includes a merger of two publicly-traded firms, the acquisition of a privately-held company by a publicly-traded one, and the purchase of publicly-traded firm by private equity.
Given a merger of Kaufhof and Karstadt seems unlikely, as its financial resources dwindle, a slow death at Karstadt may be the path to such a scenario.
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Also in attendance was the head of America's Health Insurance Plans, which was formed from a merger of the Health Insurance Association of America and another insurance lobby.
Unless there is a grassroots revolt, there seems nothing to stop a merger of the national organisations, though local affiliates will be left to decide whether to follow.
The commission approved a merger of two American makers of tissues and lavatory paper, Scott and Kimberley-Clark, but only after forcing them to sell some operations in Britain.
Microsoft has never done a merger of this size, and the two companies have very different cultures: there could be an exodus of engineers to other firms, including Google.
The product of a merger of five mortgage-bank subsidiaries, it has done well despite the dire state of the German market, largely because much of its portfolio is foreign.
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By brokering a merger of Deutsche and Dresdner, it had hoped not only to get its hand on some plum assets, but to drag German banking into the present.
If completed, a merger of Microsoft and Yahoo would be the world's largest of two computer technology companies and would create a formidable rival to Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc.
Sometimes I think they are so after GOOGLE that they dont care whether or not Facebook breaks anti-trust law and thus they allowed a merger of the 2 strongst photo based social networks.
His seven-year-old firm, Voxiva (a merger of the Latin words for "voice" and "life"), is gaining ground in the largely underserved field of helping global aid groups and government agencies communicate quickly with diverse constituencies.
The Treasury response to Vickers' Independent Commission on Banking today says a merger of those Lloyds Banking Group assets with the existing Co-op business would mean a competitor with 7-8% of the personal current account.
The STFC was formed as a new research council in April 2007 through a merger of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PParc).
The Alliance was only formed in May 2011 as a merger of the two main opposition groups, the former governing United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance, in an effort to stop splitting the anti-PLP vote.
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