Consolidations cost money up front, because there are usually some relocation and other office related costs.
The weekly chart of XLY shows several periods of consolidations within the overall uptrend.
If the deal goes through, look for equipment vendors to start their own round of consolidations.
"Nor for Italy is there a real alternative to continuing fiscal consolidations and reforms, " he continued.
Months before regulators had cleared the merger, his planners already had set plant closings, consolidations and job cuts.
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Product consolidations encountered considerable internal resistance, but helped lift DEC into the number two position in the computer industry.
Integration is, in fact, a difficult and high-risk aspect of most consolidations, and all firms must manage it diligently.
Of course, structural reforms can often be politically even harder than fiscal consolidations.
The company said its restructuring plan will include job cuts and site consolidations.
And while the consolidations have resulted in service cuts in certain markets, the airlines have also become more profitable.
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With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
If you dip your toe in the pool, be very judicious: Only select from strong leaders that are emerging from healthy price consolidations.
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"Our telework program started as a grassroots initiative to keep talented employees when there were site consolidations, " Aetna Telework Program head Eileen Levin explains.
For example, in Flanders, the textile center of the world, the banks forced productivity-oriented consolidations of hundreds of small producers into a few textile firms.
Cuomo said he believes local politics is standing in the way of mergers and consolidations that would save taxpayers money and improve efficiency of services.
Revenue-based consolidations seem to have a tendency to be less successful.
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AMD's restructuring plan, a significant portion of which will be implemented in the fourth quarter of 2012, will include a workforce reduction and site consolidations.
While New BAC sounds fancy, it is really a euphemism for layoffs, consolidations and improving processes to make the Company run more efficiently with fewer employees.
In the next two years the company plans consolidations, closings, resource transfers, and economies that will add JPY 111 billion (USD 1.4 billion) to operating profits.
With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature in that they require massive scale and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
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Its army of researchers provide useful guidance: a recent IMF paper suggests that steady fiscal consolidations, rather than the sharp ones the EC favours, work better.
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The packaging industry has been characterized by consolidations, notes Cornell.
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Such consolidations should be considered only when circumstances warrant it.
The solar industry is growing globally and like with the growth of any segment, there are typically many players to start, followed by acquisitions, mergers, other consolidations and bankruptcies.
Despite years of hard times, Cuomo said you can count "on one hand" the number of consolidations among 50, 000 local governments, school districts, fire and library taxing districts and more.
Since more than 10% of the workforce of the San Francisco peninsula is employed in finance, insurance and property, more such consolidations could have a huge impact on the local economy.
They sought the answer (which they published in an August 2012 paper on "fiscal consolidations" for the National Bureau of Economic Research) by analyzing an International Monetary Fund history of all the fiscal plans that 17 OECD governments enacted between 1978 and 2009, including the U.S., Canada and Japan.
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