In part, that is the penalty for coming late to the global consolidation table.
Until open skies are universal and limits on foreign ownership are relaxed, airlines will continue to live in the twilight world of shifting alliances rather than the clear day of global consolidation.
Another possibility: Jackson sells off the property in the current wave of global wine consolidation (see preceding story).
These planned measures are expected to include elimination of the company's matrix organizational structure, site consolidation, transfer of activities to global delivery centers, consolidation of certain central functions, cost synergies from the integration of Motorola's wireless assets, efficiencies in service operations, and company-wide process simplification.
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SABMiller, which has not done a big deal since 2005, may simply want to join the global trend towards consolidation.
Uniting all three divisions with a global sales strategy forced the consolidation of 40 different quoting, pricing and CRM systems in the U.S. alone.
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One reason for keeping apace with European rivals is that size will become an important factor if consolidation among airlines goes global.
Our cover story on Carlsberg three years ago focused on the Danish brewer's inability to join the consolidation rush in the global beer market.
In the rest of the world, meanwhile, technological development and a wave of consolidation have produced lots of genuinely global companies.
With the global beer market already well on its way to consolidation, there are not a lot of attractive acquisition targets left to snag, and those that do come up are not likely to go cheaply.
But while it is the larger exchanges that grab global headlines, Asian Pacific exchanges are not far behind in the consolidation theatre and seem to have grasped the benefits of uniting.
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When viewed from a global perspective, however, the potential of cloud computing is far beyond server consolidation and virtualization.
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