They can be completed, depending on the size of the companies involved, in four to six weeks with existing staff from the combining companies.
While the two firms have flirted openly for years, Davis reportedly refused to seriously consider combining the companies without a reliable valuation on which to base the premium Glencore would have to pay to for Xstrata.
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Combining the two companies could allow them to better compete with rivals like Staples, Amazon.com and Wal-Mart.
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In particular, there may be more to be gained by combining the two companies' arthritis treatments than investors realized.
Combining the two companies in whichever form could at best help the two automotive giants gain access to each other's markets or, under the sort of more limited alliance that is currently being entered into, at least to each other's technologies.
On the Canadian side of things, there are some well-run companies perfectly combining cash-flow and SAGD technology.
Under pooling rules, companies that are combining simply add their accounts together, making it impossible to discern the cost of the acquisition.
New data show that powerful financial and demographic forces are combining to squeeze individuals and companies that are trying to save for the future and make their money last.
But simply combining two big, established biotechnology companies does not necessarily build a better biotech.
DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) and Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF (nyse: BF - news - people ) have all shirked off their drug divisions, while attempts at combining agriculture and chemicals under one roof by companies like Monsanto and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) have failed.
To compete with the profit-making companies for properties, the housing advocates are combining the benefits of their nonprofit structure with the financial flexibility that comes from operating a REIT.
To find them Griswold turned to Abacus, a company that helps catalogers identify the most receptive and lucrative customers by combining and analyzing offline and online data mined from other companies.
As big trading firms Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch push into the market, boutique brokerages like Evolution must deal in complex custom trades, combining pollution credits with other derivatives in deals that help companies mitigate several risks at once.
Aydin Senkut, who left with tens of millions of dollars after Google's initial public offering, has funded some 22 companies, including Mashery, a service for combining different Web software packages, and BuzzLogic, a service for spotting trends on the Web.
What I am seeing are a handful of companies recognizing that they can create massive growth by combining difficult to replicate assets with entrepreneurial behaviors.
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The naysayers point out that the Groupon market will be quickly commoditized, but Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) has certainly shown that great companies can be built even in low margin businesses by combining unique technology with exceptional execution.
Drug companies think they may discover more uses for MTOR blockers by combining them with other drugs.
Obvious: When two large companies merge, there are cost-savings to be had in combining shared business functions.
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Of all the companies I have looked at, however, Appian seems to be the leader in combining the social business capabilities, the structured and partially structured process description functionality, connectivity to existing applications, model-driven development, and mobility in a vision they call Worksocial.
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The two companies envision a powerful new set of joint products to be released over the coming year by combining their talents and know-how.
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