By far the biggest player in this arena is private equity giant Blackstone Group.
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Giant Interactive Group Inc shares are currently trading off about 5.6% on the day.
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Our Dec. 10 story on the Chinese shipping giant Cosco Group referred to a Hong Kong-listed unit, China Cosco Holdings.
Last week, Sovereign Bancorp announced it was cutting 1, 000 jobs, while advertising giant Omnicom Group said it would cut 3, 000.
It was a joint venture between Electrolux of Sweden and Forbes Gokak, in which India's giant Tata Group had a stake.
Last week, insurance giant UnitedHealth Group announced a new program that lets individuals pay for the right to buy insurance in the future.
The financial crisis that began in Asia in 1997 dealt a huge blow to the giant business group, or chaebol, to which Hyundai once belonged.
The new Medicare prescription drug plan may cut retail margins, but Walgreen offsets that by snagging the contract to sell Medicare prescriptions to managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group's plan.
"The U.K. government showed tremendous foresight, " says Peter Siderman, who runs an employment research institute financed by outsourcing giant Adecco Group and has studied the immigration wave to Britain.
This year two U.K. banks, HSBC and Barclays, followed telecoms giant BT Group 's lead last year in committing to increase its use of renewable or environmentally sound energy.
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The giant insurance group, which owns 22% of Dresdner directly and sells insurance through its branches, is thought to hold sway over 40% of the bank's shares in all.
The latest buzz is that a Chinese consortium may step up with a higher bid, with the name of chemical giant Sinochem Group being mentioned as taking the lead on such a deal.
Likewise, 46% of the 401(k) plans administered by fund giant Vanguard Group offered a Roth option by the end of 2011, and only 9% of participants who had access to a Roth 401(k) were using it.
There are rumours in Seoul that Kim Woo Choong, the boss of the giant Daewoo group and one of those pardoned by the new amnesty, acted as some sort of special envoy during a recent visit he made to the North.
Chung Yong-Jin announced his resignation as vice-chairman of the board of retail giant Shinsegae Group in late February 2013, following investigations by the labor ministry into charges that the group was illegally monitoring employees to prevent them from joining a union.
Trying to build a car cheap enough for motorcycle buyers seems to make sense now but seemed crazy several years ago when Ratan Tata, longtime chairman of Tata Motors and scion of the nation's giant Tata Group conglomerate, first mentioned his dream of building a one-lakh car in 2003.
Media services firm MagnaGlobal, a division of advertising and marketing giant Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), recently lowered its 2012 forecast for total ad spending growth to 2.9 percent from 4.8 percent, pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing, consumer spending and ongoing problems in the labor and housing markets.
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As always with a ranking compiled at this time of year, Asian companies with typically later accounting years suffer a bit in comparison with more current figures in the U.S. Our databases can't always keep up with change in a nation like India: Giant Reliance group split into two.
Validare is cultivating relationships with giant insurer UnitedHealth Group and GHI, another New York HMO.
The country's number one airline was courted by Sydney-based Macquarie Bank and American private equity giant Texas Pacific Group last Wednesday .
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But even as the fates of Lehman and Merrill hung in the balance, another crisis loomed as the insurance giant American International Group appeared to teeter.
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Willumstad, now chairman of insurance giant American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ), would be another logical choice to succeed Prince.
The American Medical Association, the giant doctors' group, believes pay-for-delay agreements undermine the balance between spurring innovation through patents and fostering competition through generics, AMA President Dr. Jeremy A., Lazarus said.
It was drawn up in the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, following the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers and rescue of insurance giant American International Group (AIG).
The giant Mizuho financial group, for instance, which brings together the house banks of three keiretsu (corporate groups), contains plenty of affiliated life insurers and non-life companies, whose fate is still uncertain.
It was drawn up in the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, following the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers and multi-billion dollar rescue of insurance giant American International Group (AIG).
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