The industry source said it would be a game changer so large that it would probably have to take the form of a merger.

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Chris Keates said in this case, some of the school's problems stemmed from the "inappropriate fast-tracking of the merger of two schools to form the academy".

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Walgreen Co. (NYSE:WAG), the largest drug store chain in the U.S., and his Alliance Boots announced that they would form a strategic partnership that would likely lead to a merger.

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My company became activist with SPMD in the summer of 2012 when we filed a Form 13D wherein we recommended that its board consider a merger with its largest competitor (DEXO.) I was very pleased to see that within short time after our 13D filing the board agreed and ultimately signed a merger agreement.

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Following the merger of Headingley and Roundhay, Leeds played their first match in their new form in 1992 against Newbury in National Three.

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"This merger will clearly have a huge impact on the mobile market, since it will form the biggest mobile operator in the UK and bring the number of networks down to just four, " he added.

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