The ownership of South Korea's powerful conglomerates has come under increased scrutiny this year following a series of scandals involving members of conglomerates' founding families.
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The conglomerates owned by other wealthy Hong Kong real-estate moguls, like Li Ka-shing, get their wealth from conglomerates that have interests in other countries and industries.
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Brazil's "Operation Car Wash" investigation into political kickbacks on state infrastructure contracts has cut credit access for conglomerates under probe, such as Andrade Gutierrez, and forced large engineering conglomerates to sell assets.
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Drug production facilities range from corporate conglomerates to backwoods operations.
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Some giant international conglomerates are better than others, I suppose.
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The trouble is that reconfiguring conglomerates can be a nightmare.
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Graphic: Even among China's acquisitive conglomerates, HNA stands out: reut.
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Most large media conglomerates have hived off their print businesses.
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The new technology conglomerates are no doubt watching this space.
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Rumor has it big conglomerates have their eyes on you.
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But as a rule, Wall Street does not like conglomerates.
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The Olayan family controls one of Saudi Arabia's largest conglomerates.
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The conglomerates helped transform South Korea into Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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Both conglomerates are slimming down - U.S. based GE faster than Siemens.
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South Korea's economy is dominated by family-run conglomerates called chaebols.
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Small organic family farms increasingly lose out to international agribusiness conglomerates.
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He is due to meet executives from top conglomerates on Wednesday.
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The large Chinese tech conglomerates also have been called into action.
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They're three of the biggest consumer goods conglomerates in the world.
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It is followed by industrial conglomerates, with 317, or 13 percent.
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Other well represented industries included real estate, industrial conglomerates and technology.
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Samsung over AppleSubotky thinks investors have wildly mispriced two international conglomerates.
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That has forced the conglomerates to dial back some of their ambitions.
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What they're saying: Edward Hadas reckons that conglomerates are far from dead.
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Conglomerates owned by the army and party dominate much of the economy.
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He has gone up against gargantuan conglomerates and returned with the prize.
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Of course, some storied conglomerates are staying put, at least for now.
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The index contains many international conglomerates that benefit when the pound drops.
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And 70 percent of beer is sold to one of two conglomerates.
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They're spunky, flawed rebels at the mercy of giant, profit-motivated conglomerates.
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Now, sponsors ranging from Fortune 500 conglomerates to conference organizers host them.
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Most of the other major conservative publishers are housed within large conglomerates.
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Mining conglomerates are struggling with an oversupply of workers and production capacity.
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Goldberg: Some of these platforms are becoming monolithic conglomerates at this point.
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A handful of conglomerates already command most of the American media market.
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It features executives in suits, multi-million dollar contracts, and media conglomerates.
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And how to eliminate protections for South African conglomerates forged during apartheid.
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But powerful telecom-internet-media conglomerates immediately mire the plan in litigation.
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Now Samsung, one of the world's largest conglomerates, has been drawn in.
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Flabby state conglomerates have thwarted attempts to whip them into commercial shape.
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Local papers have been reduced to joining large conglomerates to stay afloat.
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They're all publicly traded and owned by big conglomerates with vertical integration.
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Big conglomerates often face a choice between using internal and external suppliers.
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But then why are mergers even a factor for the media conglomerates?
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The valuations of eight state conglomerates earmarked for flotation in 2014 remain pending.
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Many domestic financial services and e-commerce conglomerates are supporting Chinese fintech startups.
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The big picture: One of the few conglomerates still alive is Berkshire Hathaway.
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"We're gonna go back into a period of restaurants as conglomerates," she said.
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And judging by Disney's immediate response yesterday, perhaps other media conglomerates do, too.
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CITIC Bank belongs to one of the most global of Chinese state conglomerates.
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These days, conglomerates like GE are out of fashion in the corporate world.
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Cramer views Danaher as one of the best run conglomerates in the world.
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Public anger with the chaebol, South Korea's conglomerates, makes such special treatment improbable.
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And how will the new parts fit into these massive conglomerates' existing businesses?
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Limited partners in Draper Nexus are global tech conglomerates, primarily based in Japan.
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Other media conglomerates are jumping in as well: Disney, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros.
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They are the tool of the tasteless tracking conglomerates that hate their users.
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In addition, conglomerates can no longer own major financial and non-financial concerns.
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KKR has been taking advantage of Japanese conglomerates' need to streamline their businesses.
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Sectors that did well included scientific and consulting firms and multi-sector conglomerates.
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The Clinton administration continues regulations aimed at big oil, gas and mining conglomerates.
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Japan tries to achieve consensus with government, conglomerates, salarymen and society at large.
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But the conglomerates' mode of operation requires a massive overhaul, according to critics.
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He also says he wants to tackle big business conglomerates in the country.
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And Russia's Rosneft is one of the largest oil conglomerates in the world.
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Other conglomerates, like General Electric, have made similar moves to shed noncore operations.
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The Trump administration's dispute with Beijing has affected tech giants and industrial conglomerates.
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Shifting dynamics are roiling the huge conglomerates that serve the global power industry.
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That's how new media conglomerates like Digital First Media were able to rise.
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Sugar produced by these Chinese conglomerates is already being consumed around the globe.
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Similar scandals have failed to curb the power of these family-controlled conglomerates.
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Everyone, from people to conglomerates, stands a good chance of being gobbled up.
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But it's getting steadily less fantastic, which is why conglomerates keep selling them.
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For many, these family-run conglomerates evolved from small concerns to billion-dollar behemoths.
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The economy has long been dominated by the same conglomerates and increasingly elderly tycoons.
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I remember us being aghast when corporate conglomerates took over the FM radio dial.
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The central bank has no sway over conglomerates as it does not regulate them.
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They will find one way or another, I'm sure, like the alcohol conglomerates have.
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Its biggest firms are consumer-oriented conglomerates that mainly live off the American bounty.
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South Korea's so-called "chaebol" system of support for conglomerates is rife with corruption.
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German conglomerates have long been happy to offload unwanted parts to private-equity companies.
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Like other industrial conglomerates, United Technologies shedding businesses to focus on highly profitable units.
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In Colombia three conglomerates have almost 60% of the print, radio and internet audience.
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Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.
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GE's situation is like that of the global bank conglomerates after the financial crisis.
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Only the conglomerates could afford to live in this area and be this careless.
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Corporate lending, particularly to powerful Indian conglomerates, is at the root of the problem.
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All sectors on the index traded higher, with gains led by financials and conglomerates.
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Ms Mahdara envisions a future in which independent brands will consolidate into new conglomerates.
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Understanding what happens on that acreage is complicated—for individual farmers and agricultural conglomerates.
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We have multiple trading conglomerates raking in a small fortune from intra-empire commerce.
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But in the last decade, it has faced tough competition, mainly from Korean conglomerates.
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Big foundations tend to be conglomerates with different programs trying to achieve different goals.
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The industrial conglomerates that control the South's steel industry are powerful and politically influential.
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From small companies to conglomerates like Shell, each outfit starts off the same way.
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The global forces are roiling many big conglomerates that have long served the industry.
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The market is tilting toward craft brews, and the conglomerates figured this out too.
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That infusion of unexpected cash has caused stock prices of media conglomerates to rise.
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Instead, Myanmar's military, which controls some of the country's largest conglomerates, monopolizes the profits.
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Victoria Fu and Gloria Lu used to be product formulators for big beauty conglomerates.
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Consumers show more fealty to apps and media conglomerates than to labels and artists.
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In other industries, conglomerates are regarded as unwieldy and have fallen out of fashion.
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A family problem South Korea's economy is dominated by family-run conglomerates called chaebols.
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She proposes appointing regulators who would undo such mergers, and break up the conglomerates.
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CHALLENGING CONGLOMERATES Third Point, which has $15 billion in assets under management, has spent this year taking on some of the world's largest conglomerates, and has told investors that it plans to make more activist investments where it feels it has an edge.
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CONGLOMERATES sometimes sell their least promising units, thereby ginning up returns for the remaining empire.
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Cosmetic conglomerates like L'Oréal, Estée Lauder Companies, LVMH, Coty, Chanel, and Shiseido have all joined.
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These are often large private conglomerates or entities in which the state holds a stake.
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One of China's biggest financial conglomerates announced its first venture into continental Europe on Monday.
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Also, TJ Kirgin said "über liberal conglomerates," which was misquoted due to a transcription error.
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That would leave Disney swallowing the bulk of one of the world's biggest media conglomerates.
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Part of Democrats' argument is that tech conglomerates are anti-competitive and therefore, hurt consumers.
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Some of the country's biggest conglomerates have had to renegotiate debts worth billions of dollars.
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China has also cracked down on Chinese conglomerates for their aggressive acquisitions of overseas assets.
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Nor was disempowering the feckless but well-connected tycoons behind some of India's powerful conglomerates.
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What it means: Big food conglomerates are paying attention to the recent food consumption trends.
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Among the biggest drags on the STOXX were also luxury goods conglomerates Kering and LVMH.
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Chinese conglomerates have been buying stakes in U.S. companies and real estate for several years.
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Beijing has been seeking to curtail big-spending conglomerates in a crackdown on financial risk.
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Trump wants to stand up to media conglomerates because he suspects they treat him unfairly.
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Each year, these resolutions have been swatted away from these profitable conglomerates like pesky flies.
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"At that point, where do these conglomerates come down on pro-vegan legislation?" he said.
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China's focus on reducing financial risks has forced some conglomerates to dial back their ambitions.
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A few times per year, movie studios — owned by multibillion-dollar media conglomerates — fund art.
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PA), the emergence of aspiring conglomerates like U.S.-based Kors or China's Shandong Ruyi (002193.
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And Columbia... these are almost standalone companies before they were gobbled up by these conglomerates.
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Growth by midsize companies has helped compensate for job losses at the big steel conglomerates.
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Conglomerates haven't disappeared: They're just dressed up with Silicon Valley flair, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.
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Public outrage has turned to concerns about the influence of family-controlled conglomerates, like Samsung.
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Conglomerates have more clout when negotiating, for example, with landlords of new malls in China.
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Big conglomerates dominate many industries like South Korea's chaebols, making life difficult for small businesses.
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Five of the 90 deals went to conglomerates or foundations whose leaders Khamenei directly appoints.
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Reining in the country's politically connected conglomerates is also a major issue in the election.
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The proposed steps are aimed at further curbing the powers of the country's biggest conglomerates.
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Burger King rivals, food conglomerates and meat packers are cooking up more plant-based burgers.
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The outlook for future business sentiment rose for all respondents, especially for exporters and conglomerates.
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Citic Group, one of China's biggest state-owned conglomerates, owns a quarter of FSG's stock.
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Many media companies are part of larger conglomerates that build roads or other public projects.
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In 2015, Heineken International, one of the world's largest multinational brewing conglomerates with 180 or so brands, from Tiger to Tecate, bought a 1083% stake, following in the footsteps of other multinational brewing conglomerates: they're all on an acquisition binge of American craft brewers. Why?
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The company is part of the SK Group, one of South Korea&aposs top three conglomerates.
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Then nipping at the heels of the big conglomerates and taking considerable market share from them.
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The document also urged state-owned grain enterprises to form large-scale conglomerates and expand overseas.
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One of the biggest media conglomerates Australia has seen, it will be known simply as Nine.
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"A lot of Silicon Valley firms — Amazon, Google, Facebook — they really are conglomerates," Jerry Davis says.
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Industrial conglomerates don't have any advantage in applying its technology to a bunch of different industries.
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The labour market suffers from extreme polarisation between big conglomerates, called chaebol, and most other employers.
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In the '80s and '90s, he went from investor in media to owner of media conglomerates.
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Chinese economists have described them as "red zaibatsu", a reference to Japan's sprawling, slow-moving conglomerates.
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And, unbeknownst to most, four large conglomerates control the world's lithium mines that power those batteries.
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Private conglomerates in China have recently attracted regulatory attention for their aggressive acquisitions of overseas assets.
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"You have climate (change) deniers, industry lobbyists and energy conglomerates involved in that process," Grijalva said.
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It is known for controversial coverage of China's property firms, the stock market and acquisitive conglomerates.
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Even in developing countries, where conglomerates have long maintained their superiority, the tide may be turning.
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Halotel said the growth of conglomerates like KFC and Starbucks is making consumer palates more homogenous.
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Managers used the methodology of shareholder value to break up conglomerates and ditch weak business lines.
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And many of the biggest brands supplying bats to the MLB are owned by large conglomerates.
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The media conglomerates delivered a package of something for everyone—at first, at a reasonable price.
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What size firms are likely to be tighter cronies, small independent companies or large multinational conglomerates?
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None of the executives of the major conglomerates have been charged with any wrongdoings so far.
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The last thing we needed was a precedent that stands to help conglomerates and hurt consumers.
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But tax benefits alone make the American conglomerates' merger and expected breakup pretty close to ironclad.
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One reason conglomerates fare so well is that they're allowed to submit more titles for consideration.
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Yonhap, citing unidentified sources, said the prosecution suspected improper dealings between Park and the two conglomerates.
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This is what generational change at one of the globe's most powerful media conglomerates looks like.
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WARREN BUFFETT: Well, conglomerates have had a bad name and for good reason over the years.
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The best leagues are awash in Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern sovereign-wealth funds, and Chinese conglomerates.
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South Korea's government has called for reform of the country's family-owned conglomerates, known as chaebols.
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The conglomerates shares, which were on a trading halt prior to the announcement, closed marginally higher.
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Conglomerates prefer firing a studio's leader for picking the wrong films to reassessing the whole business.
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The most pernicious and corrupting influence, however, comes from the big conglomerates, called chaebols in Korean.
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Just about everything you see on TV is presented by one of a handful of media conglomerates.
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Cai Xiyou, who headed one of the world's largest chemical conglomerates, was put under investigation in 2016.
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The structural overhaul follows a broader trend by conglomerates including Thyssenkrupp and General Electric to slim down.
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China Merchants Group is among the country's biggest conglomerates, with interests spanning ports, shipping and financial services.
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These partnerships, of course, are designed to only further the increasing reach and scope of multinational conglomerates.
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Conglomerates thrived in the 1970s, and made a comeback after the merger frenzy of the late 1990s.
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Rich Asians had preferred to keep their money in the businesses they created, reinvesting to build conglomerates.
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But a better analogy is with cockroaches because, against the odds, conglomerates have refused to die out.
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Earlier this month the FTC reported that the conglomerates had eliminated most of their opaque circular-shareholdings.
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It was widely thought that she was blacklisted by record labels and entertainment conglomerates in the aftermath.
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I think the opportunity lies mostly in large conglomerates, which own most of the top-growing titles.
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"(There are) are lots of large conglomerates who don't really care about the share price," he warned.
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Fifteen states have sided with Nevada, which pits pharmaceutical conglomerates up against most of the U.S. states.
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Over the years these chaebol, as the conglomerates are known, have expanded into all sorts of sectors.
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Entertainment, and CNN, and resembles efforts by competing ISPs in recent years to create enormous media conglomerates.
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Disney, like other media conglomerates, has long relied on steadily climbing cable subscriber fees as an engine.
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This trend is spurring the return of the oft-derided conglomerates that came about in the 1960s.
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Family-run local conglomerates, known as chaebol, have a long history of run-ins with the law.
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Of those, 15 operate joint ventures with the two military conglomerates or their subsidiaries, the report said.
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Wien said he was less inclined to bet on large conglomerates because they often fail to deliver.
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A criticism of the conglomerates' many entertainment and real estate deals was their fit with business strategy.
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"You don't see 'Tata likes the gays,' " he said, referring to one of India's largest business conglomerates.
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Below the level of the giant conglomerates, the attitude toward Spotify's moves has been anything but hostile.
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His Ph.D. thesis extolled state support for large conglomerates that could "compete as equals" with Western multinationals.
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Those conglomerates also ignored national boundaries in Europe as they merged with other companies or acquired them.
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And the economic outlook has been damped by the debt-fueled acquisition binge of some big conglomerates.
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But the group has not disrupted the criminal conglomerates at the top of the chain, she said.
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The acquisition was one in a string of purchases of healthy snack-food companies by large conglomerates.
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These new empires — Amazon, Google, Facebook — may be inefficient just like the conglomerates that came before them.
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In fact, as I argued in that earlier WIRED column, industrial conglomerates often spin off businesses strategically.
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In capital markets today, conglomerates are hated and companies are carved and diced to the finest business.
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The timeless brands that conglomerates crave by definition need a long history, and these are relatively few.
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Quinenco is one of the largest business conglomerates in Chile with consolidated assets of around $54 billion.
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Traditional conglomerates do not have a future because, he says, their inherent lack of focus drives mediocrity.
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Former industrial conglomerates are shedding assets due to pressure from both shareholders and activist investors, Melius found.
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Headspace has also signed deals with more traditional employers and sprawling conglomerates like General Electric and Unilever.
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The conglomerates, with their stellar reputations and strong profits, were at the front of the lending line.
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Photo: AP2017 was the year public sentiment began to turn against massive tech conglomerates like Facebook and Google.
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Park was impeached in December on accusations she colluded with a friend to collect bribes from big conglomerates.
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Beijing has already pushed the merger of its railcar makers, along with its biggest shipping and nuclear conglomerates.
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South Korea's economy is dominated by chaebols, or family-run conglomerates (the term literally translates to "wealth clan").
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For example, Kering and LVMH—luxury conglomerates whose owners have bought Burgundy vineyards—returned 958% in 2003-18.
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The state planner said it was coordinating with state agriculture conglomerates to increase supplies of staples to Hubei.
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The chaebol—sprawling family-run conglomerates such as Samsung and Hyundai—dominate business, as they have for decades.
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Not mini, massive conglomerates of semi overlapping ... Semi overlapping so you can't really point to any of them.
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Two of Turkey's biggest conglomerates, Yildiz and Dogus, have reportedly entered talks to restructure some $9bn of debt.
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While investors tolerate Berkshire and the digital conglomerates for now, the double standard will not last for long.
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As telecommunications companies like Verizon attempt to become larger media conglomerates, Yahoo's media business could still be valuable.
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For one of the country's largest media conglomerates, the sale must have felt like a coup de grâce.
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A few "rampantly expanding" financial conglomerates also pose risks to the financial system, Yi said, without naming any.
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Today, the studios are owned by sprawling conglomerates, which employ their own lobbyists and often have competing interests.
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The property firm behind Ayala Center Cebu is owned by Ayala Corp, one of the Philippines' largest conglomerates.
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Johnson & Johnson is yet another in a long line of major conglomerates looking to crack the startup space.
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Many media groups were folded into vertically integrated conglomerates that controlled both the production and distribution of content.
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In an age when conglomerates are dead, it is hard to see a company pivoting in this manner.
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He was also information security counsel and chief compliance officer of one of the world's largest luxury conglomerates.
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Similar spectacles now drive powerful media conglomerates like 21st Century Fox, which includes both news and entertainment subsidiaries.
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If the existing conglomerates can't be broken up, future big mergers and private practice acquisitions could be discouraged.
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Decades after World War II, Benckiser evolved into one of the largest consumer goods conglomerates on the planet.
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It is the biggest and most lucrative of a handful of chaebol conglomerates that dominate South Korea's economy.
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Major conglomerates like Wanda Dalian and HNA have already rallied around Mr. Xi in a show of fealty.
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Even among media conglomerates, Disney has a unique mix of businesses, some of which are healthier than others.
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Many saw the episode as a signal of judicial weakness against white-collar crime and family-owned conglomerates.
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Moreover, China has a huge industrial sector dominated by state conglomerates that can outgun regulators and ignore laws.
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The case exposed corrupt ties between powerful South Korean politicians and Samsung, as well as other major conglomerates.
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Discontent over the grip that the big conglomerates hold on public and economic life has reached new highs.
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Mobile-phone operators have faced predatory pricing from deep-pocketed conglomerates and "tax terrorism" from overzealous revenue collectors.
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Nor are executives of big media conglomerates motivated by making sure minorities are depicted in a positive light.
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The case exposed corrupt ties between powerful South Korean politicians and Samsung, as well as other major conglomerates.
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But the biggest change — for me, anyway — has been the rise of big conglomerates buying up fashion houses.
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There isn't necessarily anything wrong with this — there are lots of conventional conglomerates whose various parts operate independently.
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East Ventures also received financial backing from Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek Holdings and Indonesian conglomerates Sinarmas and Emtek (EMTK.JK).
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United Technologies has been one of the largest international conglomerates with a stock that has soared since the election.
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Koreans are wary of being whistleblowers about harassment at family-run conglomerates or chaebol that dominate South Korean business.
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The 64-year-old liberal leader campaigned on a platform of curbing the power of the conglomerates, or chaebol.
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The bottom line: Maybe the big cloud providers — Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle — are in some way the new conglomerates.
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Koch and his 83-year-old brother, Charles, ran Koch Industries, one of the nation's largest privately held conglomerates.
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India's big media conglomerates are either owned by fans of the BJP, or else reliant on the government's favour.
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The deal comes just as industrial conglomerates are rethinking their businesses and scrambling to focus on highly profitable units.
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South Korean citizens have long demanded government policies to curtail the power of family-run conglomerates, known as chaebols.
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The recent trend has been for companies to spin off separate businesses, rather than to combine into massive conglomerates.
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Since then, mobile data consumption has skyrocketed and, in the process, helped turn wireless companies into digital media conglomerates.
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Through two sprawling conglomerates, the military has business interests ranging from real estate development to cigarette and beer production.
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Bajaj Finserv is the financial services arm of one of India's largest and oldest conglomerates, Bajaj Holdings and Investment.
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South Korean media said the two conglomerates were the SK and Hanjin groups, but police declined to confirm that.
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While the manufacturing sector includes world class conglomerates like Samsung and LG, productivity in the service sector is low.
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Local news outlets are undergoing a mass extinction, dying lonely deaths or being devoured by mega-conglomerates like Sinclair.
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KKR has been taking advantage of a push by Japanese conglomerates to restructure and spin off non-core assets.
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Mwananchi Communications is a subsidiary of Kenya-based Nation Media Group (NMG), one of East Africa's largest media conglomerates.
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Meanwhile, giant insurers and hospital conglomerates with a single-minded focus on their bottom line increasingly dominate health care.
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He wants to break up big media and tech conglomerates, increase funding for public media and empower journalist unions.
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Deals by conglomerates including Dalian Wanda, HNA, the Fosun Group and Anbang Insurance have come in for particular scrutiny.
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China has yet to let one of its big conglomerates fail, and HNA is unlikely to be an exception.
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Now those companies are completely different, they're conglomerates and they have to be more concerned with their bottom line.
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Now, one of the world's largest and most prestigious perfume and cosmetic conglomerates, LVMH, is stepping in to help.
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South Korea's top 10 conglomerates had revenue equivalent to 113 percent of the country's gross domestic product in 2017.
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For huge media conglomerates, this dynamic might matter only in the margins; ESPN surely has more immediate business concerns.
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Fosun Tourism's parent Fosun International was co-founded by billionaire Guo Guangchang and is one of China's biggest conglomerates.
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Call of Duty League team owners range from professional sports teams and media conglomerates to real estate investment firms.
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Conglomerates have lasted longer in Europe due to a mix of factors that can insulate managers from unhappy shareholders.
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On top of all that, Wang said those Chinese technology conglomerates will be resilient against any trade war escalations.
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Activision Blizzard's esports investors range from Chinese conglomerates and professional sports teams to cybersecurity experts and social-media companies.
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Its other prominent shareholders include Toyota (TM) and Japanese conglomerates Sumitomo (SSUMF) and Mitsui (MITSY), according to its website.
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Japan and South Korea have relied on conglomerates in which families of companies help finance and govern one another.
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Such measures could help investors block founding families of conglomerates from forcing through moves putting their interests above others.
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Major conglomerates such as Lotte, Hyundai, Hyosung and KT have announced task forces dedicated to exploring inter-Korean ventures.
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Shaking up Korea's powerful conglomerates, or chaebol, would be an important plank of any structural overhaul of the economy.
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Toshiba, one of Japan's oldest and proudest technology conglomerates, said on Friday it would spin off its microchip division.
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Which is fine except that countries like China and its state-owned conglomerates don't abide by the same rules.
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Cho was also head of Korean Air parent company Hanjin Group, one of South Korea's sprawling family-run conglomerates.
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A return to the conglomerates of the 1960s, and oligopolies, where industries are dominated by a few big players.
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Economists and investors have criticized Mr. Xi for giving what they consider too much protection to state-owned conglomerates.
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However, one source with knowledge of the process said Cox had previously talked with industrial conglomerates and international investment funds.
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For all its scale, Times Internet remains one of the least talked about conglomerates of its size in the country.
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Almost immediately, Netflix went from the way we stream movies to a competitor of HBO and other massive media conglomerates.
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The great conglomerates of the past, names like ITT and Gulf + Western and Hanson Trust, are dim memories at best.
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She has been arrested on suspicion of manipulating conglomerates into funnelling 80bn won ($70m) to two foundations that she controls.
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One of the country's biggest conglomerates, the Dogan group, suffered a similar fate after police detained several of its executives.
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Tusa is widely followed for his analysis of industrial conglomerates, especially after his early warnings on General Electric's came true.
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In the 1990s, the agricultural sector consolidated under a small number of sprawling conglomerates that organized the entire supply chain.
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It sees where its long-term play could take it, as a full-scale competitor to the major media conglomerates.
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The same old family-run conglomerates in Hong Kong have a lock on property development, port operators, utilities and supermarkets.
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Moon came to power this month promising to rein in the family-owned conglomerates that dominate Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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To this end, a group of business leaders, including executives from the South's big conglomerates, have accompanied him to Pyongyang.
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Conglomerates have become prime targets of activists, who have sought to break up large companies into smaller, more focused businesses.
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In the beginning of the book, you mention this Big Marijuana prophecy about how conglomerates are sure to take over.
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Prosecutors are looking into allegations that An and Choi forced South Korean conglomerates to donate funds to non-profit foundations.
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The number of central government conglomerates, which now stands at 106, would fall to within 100 this year, Peng said.
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Within companies and conglomerates, as well as in government agencies and schools, teams are now the fundamental unit of organization.
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Among stocks, General Electric gained about 3.2 percent, riding the optimism from the industrial conglomerates' restructuring plans announced on Tuesday.
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The failed deal underscores how Brazilian authorities have turned tougher with deals that could give large conglomerates extra market power.
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One of the United States' biggest wireless, internet and TV service providers merges with one of our biggest media conglomerates.
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And a court has jailed Lee Jae-yong, the boss of Samsung, the largest of the country's dominant chaebol (conglomerates).
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Until her book was published in October, Wang was interviewing for product manager jobs at "big tech conglomerates," she says.
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So what'll it take to lead the media conglomerates and their studios into this next decade of the digital age?
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Conglomerates, viewed by some investors as inefficient and hard to value, are often saddled with a discounted valuation by investors.
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Whichever route they take, energy conglomerates will still enjoy massive financial scale and unparalleled influence in the halls of government.
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Giant conglomerates rush to cover the same things every day and are trying siphon enough social traffic to stay alive.
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Local conglomerates are salivating at an opportunity they expect could be worth $2500 billion-215 billion in the coming decade.
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It probably violates if not my own personal copyrights then almost certainly those of a number of multinational entertainment conglomerates.
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Splitting United Technologies (UTX) into three separate public companies marks the end of one of America's last great industrial conglomerates.
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The Beximco group does have significant borrowings from local banks, as is common for many large conglomerates such as ours.
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Guo claims that Wang's family secretly controls one of the largest conglomerates in China, the New York Times has reported.
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The controlling shareholders behind the media conglomerates CBS and Viacom, which split 10 years ago, have suggested a tie-up.
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Among stocks, General Electric gained about 4 percent, riding the optimism from the industrial conglomerates' restructuring plans announced on Tuesday.
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Fosun International, one of China's largest conglomerates, is still pursuing acquisitions overseas, despite curbs on capital outflows by Chinese regulators.
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This was supported by a fall in sterling with many big conglomerates on the index earning revenues in U.S. dollars.
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Signers of the letter include some of the world's biggest food conglomerates including Mondelez International, Kellogg Company, and Mars Inc.
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Big tech conglomerates have a strong market advantage when it comes to the size and scope of their data sets.
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And the military owns two of Myanmar's largest conglomerates, the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited and Myanmar Economic Corporation.
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And when the dust ultimately settled in the battle for sustained growth, a quartet of conglomerates stood above the rest.
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Big conglomerates GS, SK and Hanwha would not participate in the bidding for the debt-ridden carrier, company spokesmen said.
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Critics of cocktail conventions have complained in the past that powerful liquor conglomerates use their influence to set the agenda.
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Chinese regulators have also ramped up scrutiny on conglomerates that have gorged on inexpensive debt to finance pricey overseas acquisitions.
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Investors seem to be having mixed feelings on these factors within the context of each of the large tech conglomerates.
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He was dismayed that conglomerates were acquiring publishing houses and resented what he called the dumbing down of international culture.
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Separately, two French fashion conglomerates pledged to curb the use of ultra-skinny models, amid an outcry over health issues.
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From indie skin-care brand Farmacy to beauty conglomerates like L'Oréal, these companies are making a difference during unprecedented times.
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We know it seems practically impossible in the age of giant telecommunication conglomerates, but you actually do have other options.
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Its pilots' strike has become the latest example of how the fabled competence of German conglomerates has fallen into crisis.
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For domestic investors, Great Wall is considering big financial institutions, state-owned conglomerates as well as private firms, Zhang said.
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Chinese conglomerates such as Anbang, HNA and Dalian Wanda had been on an overseas spending spree in 2015 and 2016.
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Property conglomerates listed in Hong Kong generally suffer from low valuations and thin trading volumes, and Wheelock is no exception.
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The environment ministry said in July it would also extend probes to two giant state-owned conglomerates, Minmetals and ChemChina.
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It began as a textile business but has grown into one of India's biggest conglomerates spanning energy, retail and telecoms.
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Chaebols are South Korea's large, family-run conglomerates that have historically played an important role in the country's economic development.
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The National Assembly's impeachment bill alleged that Ms. Park solicited bribes from Samsung and other conglomerates, which she has denied.
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American companies decided to move to low-tax jurisdictions, or they agreed to be bought by global conglomerates headquartered elsewhere.
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Without changes, the skewed playing field will enable these massive shipping conglomerates to grow their competitive advantages over American businesses.
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The blockbuster game is a fantastic business to be in when it works, which is why conglomerates keep buying studios.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Proposed ownership limits at Chinese insurance companies could effectively stop conglomerates such as China Evergrande Group (3333.
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He teamed up with one of China's biggest conglomerates and set up a company that would help Chinese companies overseas.
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As a joint venture between three massive media conglomerates, its leadership hasn't always been able to determine its own future.
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Nimble, single-business firms increasingly have the edge over giant conglomerates in the region, according to analysis by Bain, a consultancy.
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There could also be significant economic implications, as some of the country's biggest conglomerates have suffered their own follies this year.
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This argument, by necessity, minimizes the associated risks that an affiliation with one of China's most prominent tech conglomerates might have.
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South Korea has been buffeted by corporate scandals, many within its family-run conglomerates or chaebol, but has seen few whistleblowers.
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CONGLOMERATES hold a natural appeal for bosses, who fancy themselves capable of managing any number of businesses under one corporate roof.
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Investors in America have had such successes busting conglomerates apart that they are now largely viewed as creatures from another era.
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Activist Insight, a data provider, says no fewer than 77 European companies, including many conglomerates, are being targeted by activist investors.
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The diverse assets — which also include Comedy Central and Nickelodeon — could make more money as parts of other conglomerates, he said.
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As streaming services like Netflix have taken off, various entertainment conglomerates have branched off to form their own independent online channels.
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Started in 2002, the young company is a rarity in consumer electronics, an industry that is mostly dominated by larger conglomerates.
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Billionaires who made their money from industrial conglomerates represent 12.8 percent of the world's total, making it the second-largest industry.
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Not all the conglomerates grew out of ministries: some started as private companies but became big enough to require state patronage.
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The lobby group for the Korean conglomerates known as chaebol, the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), held a seminar on Sept.
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Other Chinese conglomerates with major overseas assets have also come under government scrutiny in recent months, buffeted by shifting policy winds.
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Saudi Binladin, one of the country's top construction conglomerates, and the the Ministry of Finance were not immediately available to comment.
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Some of the huge conglomerates on the index actually collect revenues in dollars, meaning a fall for sterling meant they benefited.
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Google becoming BFFs with Walmart may be a scary thought for those who fear the expanding reach and dominance of conglomerates.
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They don't ask average schmucks for money; they go to lobbyists for pharma, Wall Street, insurance, telcos, energy conglomerates…and airlines.
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In January, police detained the top legal advisor and a former chief executive of Dogan Holding, one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates.
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The case renews criticism about the close relationship between South Korea's large, family-run conglomerates (called chaebols) and the country's government.
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In South Korea, conglomerates' financial arms are required to limit their combined stake in a non-financial affiliate to 2028260 percent.
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It was precisely this behavior by the media conglomerates that drove voters into the arms of the unvarnished then-candidate Trump.
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CEG is one of just two major financial conglomerates (CITIC Group is the other one) operating in the Chinese financial sector.
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South Korea's government is pushing local conglomerates to gradually move to a holding company structure to improve transparency and corporate governance.
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Neither entity has any incentive to alter its business model, and in this they behave as corporate conglomerates have always behaved.
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Big fashion houses including French conglomerates LVMH and Kering are among those hiring eye-catching designers and investing in male attire.
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Kim has been nicknamed the "chaebol sniper" for his shareholder activist campaigns against the large family-run conglomerates known as chaebol.
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With today's rhetoric, Shelby, Toomey, Corker, and others confirmed that consumer abuses by major national banking conglomerates are a serious problem.
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For vendors, however, it feels like a brand of extortion that favors large conglomerates over companies that can't afford upfront fees.
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They have seen, for instance, French luxury conglomerates LVMH and Kering dominate the fashion sector, purchasing prestigious marques like Loro Piana.
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Beijing has been growing increasingly bold in a bid to curtail big-spending conglomerates as it cracks down on financial risk.
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"Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity," he said.
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Entertainment conglomerates in Asia, like the Dalian Wanda Group, will be watching what may be the birth of their greatest rival.
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Today, huge conglomerates like Georgia Pacific, along with a handful of smaller companies, produce paper in the Fox River Valley area.
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But critics of the country's conglomerates had hoped that Mr. Lee's original, unusually long sentence — five years — would herald tougher regulation.
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AMC Networks makes The Walking Dead, among other TV series, and technically isn't owned by one of the big studio conglomerates.
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He believes a move toward a more plant-based diet would help smaller farms at the expense of big meat conglomerates.
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Over the years, many of the companies have evolved into sprawling conglomerates with major roles in even the ostensibly private economy.
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The analysts looked at media conglomerates like Disney, cable companies like Comcast, telecoms like AT&T, and infrastructure firms like Equinix.
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Shareholders have made clear over the past decade that conglomerates like United Technologies or G.E. are worth more apart than together.
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Even mega-conglomerates like AT&T have signaled out gaming as the type of content they don't want to advertise on.
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That's creating a space where only very small niche players and massive asset management conglomerates like Vanguard and BlackRock can survive.
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Yet the conglomerates still enjoy some of the benefits that Park Chung-hee conferred on them more than four decades ago.
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He also wants to reform powerful family-run conglomerates, such as Samsung and Hyundai, and boost fiscal spending to create jobs.
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For decades, its growth has been fueled by companies like Samsung, one of a group of family-controlled conglomerates called chaebol.
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All of the member studios are embedded within global media conglomerates, which employ their own lobbyists and often have competing interests.
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Competition for jobs In South Korea's hyper-competitive job market, well-paying jobs at large conglomerates are few and far between.
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We'll talk a little bit about conglomerates and whether Berkshire Hathaway is being discounted in the market because it's a conglomerate.
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Revenue projections for major television conglomerates continue to shrink, and the push to streaming has impacted the bottom line for performers.
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General Electric, one of the biggest conglomerates in the U.S., has seen its stock tank 45 percent in the past year.
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It might seem odd for huge media conglomerates to join forces like this, but in most cases, they were already collaborating.
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The advance was led by conglomerates before the market close while overall gains were capped by falls in materials and services.
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Mistry launched legal proceedings against Tata Sons after his ouster from the company, one of India's oldest and largest conglomerates. reut.
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Should the liberal party, which emphasizes reform of conglomerates, take power, this will put pressure on heavyweight shares like Samsung Electronics.
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From its roots as a small airline, HNA has evolved into one of the few Chinese conglomerates with a worldwide reach.
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But Armagnac is to Cognac what mezcal is to tequila — a drink mainly produced by small operators rather than large conglomerates.
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But the fashion world is dominated by conglomerates, and in that sense, their decision to join up isn't surprising at all.
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At the moment, conglomerates control just a small part of the US market, but industry observers predict a steady increase in consolidation.
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Now in the US, public market planners are finding value beyond traditional corporate food conglomerates and are instead investing in local fare.
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The conglomerates helped make South Korea a corporate powerhouse but critics say they have abused their power to crowd out smaller businesses.
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United Technologies shares have been treading water as investors shy away from stocks of conglomerates in favor of buying more focused companies.
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The technique, called ringfencing, has been used by other industrial conglomerates seeking to limit exposure to similar legal claims, the sources added.
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Companies ranging from engineering conglomerates such as Siemens to small specialists like ChargePoint are all hoping for a slice of the pie.
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In luxury goods, for example, French conglomerates with deep pockets, notably LVMH and Kering, have been acquiring smaller Italian rivals for years.
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Canyon Bridge's investment focus complements China's efforts to move its manufacturers up the value chain and create innovative and competitive global conglomerates.
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Usually conglomerates are not favored by analysts [because] they find it very difficult to get a handle on what they are doing.
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It was all to prove his point — that he wouldn't be passed around like a piece of property between various record conglomerates.
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Could a merger of United Technologies and Honeywell — two huge industrial conglomerates that have flirted with combining in the past — ever happen?
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It's precisely the type of video product tech companies like Facebook and Snapchat and media conglomerates like Verizon have been looking for.
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That makes the king the biggest shareholder in Thailand's third-biggest bank and one of its biggest industrial conglomerates, among other firms.
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The overseas investments of other high-flyers, notably HNA and Wanda, two of China's biggest private conglomerates, have also faced close scrutiny.
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But Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have all become pretty classic conglomerates, with a sprawling array of loosely related businesses under one roof.
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This could pose a serious problem, since most people on the minimum wage work for smaller firms, not conglomerates such as Samsung.
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He is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and appoints the heads of the judiciary, state broadcasting and major economic conglomerates.
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Last year Bain reported that in 2007-16 a sample of 102 conglomerates underperformed a group of 287 more single-minded firms.
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Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett liked the business so much that one of his conglomerates has a 10 percent stake in BYD.
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In the space of a month, two of the country's biggest conglomerates entered talks to restructure as much as $9bn in debt.
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Dollar deposits in September slipped to $56.52 billion from $56.92 billion as conglomerates withdrew cash to pay back debt, the statement said.
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Beijing is trying to streamline and modernize its bloated and debt-ridden state-owned sector and create conglomerates capable of competing globally.
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Kim said seven conglomerates currently had 90 cross-shareholding ties, sharply down from about 98,000 chains at 14 companies five years ago.
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The Seattle-headquartered chain also has 146 stores in India, where it has partnered with one of the country's biggest conglomerates, Tata.
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Do you think NAFTA and the War on Drugs have actually helped turn the cartels into major conglomerates and wide-reaching organizations?
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In Asia, South Korea is expected to be the big dividend growth story as conglomerates follow government instructions to unlock cash piles.
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The acquisition extends the partnership struck between the conglomerates back in 2014 for D+M to distribute Sound United brands in Europe.
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If Humira were a standalone company, it would be larger than many Fortune 500 conglomerates, such as General Mills, Halliburton or Xerox.
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Park was impeached over a graft scandal involving South Korea's conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China.
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And the traditional big beauty conglomerates are scared enough of the clean beauty backlash that even they are actively seeking more oversight.
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Conglomerates headquartered in Asia are also planting flags in Europe, including Japan's Rakuten, which now has an artificial intelligence center in Paris.
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"The use of new construction materials such as quartz conglomerates has increased silicosis incidence due to intense occupational exposures," that study concluded.
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He earned a business degree at Pace University while working for the American division of one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates, Calik Holding.
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Analysts said deal-making for Lotte, one of the country's most acquisitive conglomerates, is likely to be on hold for some time.
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In this world of mergers and overlapping conglomerates, the internet will be a pawn between companies that want to sell you television.
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Some of the country's biggest conglomerates such as LG Group have established a holding company in order to streamline their ownership structure.
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Many of South Korea's biggest businesses -- including Korean Air, Samsung and Hyundai -- are family-run conglomerates known as "chaebol" inside the country.
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Yildiz, one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates, may look to use the Japanese sale proceeds to invest in other markets, one source said.
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Strengthening laws that increase transparency would let people see how much money politicians get from large food conglomerates to perpetuate unhealthy policies.
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Instead, military-owned business conglomerates have been underwriting construction projects that are destroying evidence as they bulldoze what remain of Rohingya villages.
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SK E&S is a subsidiary of SK Group, one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea and part of SK Holdings.
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China's banking regulator has ordered checks on offshore loans to conglomerates including Wanda, but also HNA, say people familiar with the matter.
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Whirlpool is engaged in just such a case, alongside GE Appliances, to prevent further cheating by South Korean conglomerates LG and Samsung.
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McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Audi and Volkswagen are just a few of the corporate conglomerates that are interpreting "social distancing" with logo redesigns.
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AT&T has been an outlier in terms of its M&A strategy: Most companies today no longer seek to assemble conglomerates.
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Wanda's retrenchment began after Beijing launched a crackdown in mid-2017 on what it viewed as irrational acquisitions by some Chinese conglomerates.
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But some of the most notable ones, including Qualtrics, Adaptive Insights and Mulesoft, are now under the umbrella of much larger conglomerates.
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Because of their near monopolistic market positions at home, conglomerates have been reluctant to take risks and slower to innovate, Lee said.
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Gucci Group itself was later acquired by — and is now known as — Kering, one of the largest luxury conglomerates in the world.
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Immediate recognition is the reason conglomerates overwhelmingly choose pre-existing fashion labels as vehicles for young talent instead of backing new ventures.
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"In Colombia, the sugar industry and the main media companies belong to the same economic conglomerates," Mr. Gaviria, the health minister, said.
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Schwartz said the lesser-known agents are always in danger of losing players during their prime earning years to the major conglomerates.
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Franchise investors range from endemic esports organizations with venture-capitalist backing to media conglomerates and sports franchises like the Los Angeles Rams.
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Chapek will be in charge of navigating one of the biggest shifts in media at one of the world's largest entertainment conglomerates.
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Conglomerates were supposed to be dying off, and corporate America was supposed to have fallen in love with small and nimble companies.
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The company is owned by two independent global food conglomerates, PepsiCo, based in the US, and the Strauss Group, based in Israel.
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The dominance of local conglomerates will be hard to break in Europe and America, says Kim Ju-Duck of Sungshin Women's University.
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Conglomerates like Nestlé have aggressively marketed those products, and over the past decade the percentage of people with obesity has nearly doubled.
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The group is one of India's most indebted conglomerates, having borrowed heavily in recent years to expand its steel and power businesses.
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During parliamentary hearings into the corruption scandal, top executives at Samsung and other conglomerates admitted contributing to Ms. Choi's foundations and companies.
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Studios are massive conglomerates now, concerned about theme parks and merchandising that also serve their bottom lines, and distribution models keep evolving.
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As evidence of Beijing's disinterest in investments that didn't directly help the Chinese economy, Napier pointed to recent developments surrounding Chinese conglomerates.
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Energy-linked stocks traded higher, extending sharp gains seen on Tuesday, with conglomerates and technology names also buoyant before the market close.
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The arrest is a dramatic turn in the struggle to end collusive ties between the government and the powerful family-controlled conglomerates.
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Other shareholders are the private equity arms of financial conglomerates Old Mutual and Sanlam and the state pension fund, Public Investment Corporation.
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General Electric was up 0.4 percent, while Honeywell gained 1.7 percent after the two industrial conglomerates posted better-than-expected quarterly profits.
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As HNA and other conglomerates make ever bigger bets, Chinese policy makers, economists and investors are wondering if the debt is sustainable.
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Samsung is the biggest among the chaebol, a handful of family-run conglomerates that have dominated the South Korean economy for decades.
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But in recent years the growing reach of tech conglomerates has created urgency within labor to court their workers, Mr. Kochan said.
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The top 22018 conglomerates including world-class brands such as Samsung and Hyundai, make up half of South Korea's total market capitalization.
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The conglomerates "are still run for the benefit of the families who own them", says Park Ju-gun of CEOScore, a corporate watchdog.
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"Ultimately, we've gone from one big conglomerate to two smaller conglomerates," Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Cedar Ekblom said during the call.
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This often seems intuitively wrong to people who view octopus-like conglomerates who have their fingers in many related pies as especially menacing.
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That's small change to these large conglomerates, but it's a stick in the eye to Mylan as it watches its stock price fall.
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Elliott has challenged the country's top two family-run conglomerates, most recently Hyundai Motor Group over better corporate governance and returns to shareholders.
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As a result, we got a lot more mergers, resulting in massive conglomerates that are disproportionately headquartered in a handful of big cities.
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Monopoly Spend years lining up complex bids for rival conglomerates only to get bogged down in interminable legal proceedings with governmental regulatory bodies.
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Executives from the chaebol, as South Korea's big conglomerates are known, also went—among them Lee Jae-yong, de facto head of Samsung.
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The future may be an uncertain thing unfolding in the shadow of mega-conglomerates, but at least the movie business is staying interesting.
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In America and Europe, once-sprawling conglomerates are being carved up into focused companies that investors hope will fare better on their own.
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Others point to the old habits of the chaebol, the South Korean conglomerates of which Hyundai's parent company is one of the biggest.
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A lot of my SimuLife story experience thus far has bordered on the fantastic: dimension-hopping, massive tech conglomerates, and scrappy resistance groups.
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Choi, 60, is also accused of embezzlement, forcing conglomerates to make massive donations to nonprofits, and getting preferential treatment from banks for loans.
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Their most liquid companies tend to be national champions or sprawling conglomerates that neglect minority shareholders and jump into bed with the government.
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Instead of relying on benefactors, external investors or huge faceless wine conglomerates, the company is enabling winemakers to make the wines they want.
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Six consortia, including conglomerates San Miguel Corp and Metro Pacific Investments Corp and their foreign partners, have expressed interest in the provincial airports.
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Yet this newfound power to transform food traits coincides with a moment when the agriculture business has consolidated into essentially three mega-conglomerates.
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Since the crackdown by Beijing, Wanda and other conglomerates such as HNA Group and Fosun International have dialed back some their ambitions abroad.
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Buying spree: That underscores the need for U.S. carriers to diversify beyond their core business, giving rise to conglomerates that cross multiple businesses.
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Shareholder activism is growing in South Korea after President Moon Jae-in made reform of the country's powerful conglomerates a key election pledge.
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The other side: The industry argues that these policies are good for TV and radio stations that aren't part of the big conglomerates.
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Beijing is trying to revive China's bloated state-owned sector and create "bigger and stronger" conglomerates capable of competing on the global stage.
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More deals in the sector are likely, as industrial conglomerates continue to separate businesses that are too disparate in terms of financial performance.
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People have stopped buying clothes with quite the alacrity they used to, and large conglomerates have begun to see their profits slip southward.
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"If conglomerates come in, my answer is: God bless 'em — it saves me the hassle," Mr. Chong, 573, said in a telephone interview.
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New York City is a well-established home for real-estate businesses and media conglomerates — along with the firms that invest in them.
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As a result, the firms themselves have emerged as relatively anonymous conglomerates that exert power behind the scenes in their dealings with governments.
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Park has apologized to the country but said she never gained personally from money that came from family-run conglomerates known as chaebol.
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But the Trump administration seemingly has no intention to establish truly fair trade or to rein in the power of multinational agriculture conglomerates.
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The two Korean conglomerates have claimed that they have grown market share, not by cheating but by selling washing machines in different colors.
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She believes that she will have to take on Big Business (in her district, this means large farming conglomerates) to get anything done.
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The bottom line: This is an entertaining fight among wealthy investors and health care conglomerates with a lot of money on the line.
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Farms have consolidated or been purchased by conglomerates, and technological advances like automation have meant fewer employees are needed to work the fields.
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The court decision was the first ruling against Choi, who faces separate charges that allege she accepted bribes for Park from business conglomerates.
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On Friday, South Korea's Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country's conglomerates.
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And some flagship Israeli companies have been acquired by Chinese conglomerates, such as ChemChina's acquisition of Adama and Bright Food's takeover of Tnuva.
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Mitsubishi Materials is part of the loosely affiliated Mitsubishi family of companies, with roots in one of Japan's most powerful prewar industrial conglomerates.
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The event, sponsored by the Spanish bank Santander and the Brazilian media conglomerates Valor and Globo, attracted mainly bankers and other business people.
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Like other large Chinese conglomerates, HNA is a vast network of public and private companies, subsidiaries and affiliates under a single corporate umbrella.
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South Korean conglomerates GS Group and SK Group will not participate in the bid for the debt-ridden carrier, company officials told Reuters.
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The industrial giant said yesterday that it will break itself up, the latest sign that investors want smaller, more focused businesses, not conglomerates.
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The demonstrations also felled President Park Geun-hye, impeached on charges of collecting bribes from family-controlled conglomerates, known as chaebol, like Samsung.
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"Apartheid was a system that lends itself to large conglomerates and concentrations of wealth in the hands of a few," Mr. Cawe said.
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The electricity the dams generate can serve growing urban populations and provide a financial boon for provincial officials, powerful militaries and giant conglomerates.
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They relaxed antitrust law, eliminated the fairness doctrine and eventually allowed the creation of large media conglomerates through the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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He plans to revise regulations to reduce the dominance of South Korea's giant "chaebol" conglomerates, and subsidize smaller businesses to promote balanced growth.
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Luxury, once little more than a cottage industry dominated by family firms in Europe, has become the preserve of a few giant conglomerates.
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Wanda rode China's ever-rising rivers of debt and political connections to become one of the country's largest real estate and entertainment conglomerates.
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Everbright, one of mainland China's oldest and biggest financial conglomerates, was founded in Hong Kong in 1983, early in China's economic reform era.
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It is also present in places like South Korea, with its chaebol — the family-controlled conglomerates, like Samsung, that have immense economic power.
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In a move rare for Japan's conglomerates, the company has been selling of non-core assets while buying foreign businesses to expand overseas.
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That money goes to those two conglomerates that have been able to reduce their tax bills and move much of their profits offshore.
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And there have also been major scandals involving the chaebols, which are family-owned business conglomerates that hold considerable power in South Korea.
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It's an arduous and tedious process that demands securing deals with media conglomerates hoping to bundle its popular channels with less attractive offerings.
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Another point of pain for industrial conglomerates in 2018 has been concern around the United States' relationships with its trading partners, particularly China.
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Now, Toshiba, one of Japan's oldest and proudest technology conglomerates, has to sell its most valuable business to try to undo the damage.
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While large conglomerates in developed markets have hired investment bankers to beef up in-house operations, they do still also use external advisers.
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"Moon could first draft another extra budget, slow down on taking wage floor higher, and turn less hawkish about regulating conglomerates," Lee said.
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Since his election to the Senate in 2006, Mr. Sanders has argued that conglomerates exercise outsize news media control even in the Internet era.
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Warning: if you're not a fan of spoilers or fictional conglomerates hellbent on taking over the free world, you should probably stop reading here.
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Companies that trade smaller, over-the-counter stocks aren't required to show the same transparency as the conglomerates on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Al-Dahana, a marketing and dealer development firm, is majority owned by Khaled Al-Juffali, vice chairman of one of Saudi Arabia's largest conglomerates.
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Europe's big luxury conglomerates have been among the biggest winners in the industry upturn so far, helped by their wide-ranging stable of brands.
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Major domestic lenders were ordered to monitor their exposures to large acquisitive conglomerates, such as Wanda, Anbang Insurance Group, Fosun Group and HNA Group.
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Large media conglomerates like ESPN, which thrive on business models designed to generate revenue based on viewership, cater first to the demands of viewers.
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Now, firms ranging from industrial conglomerates like GE to biotech giants such as Amgen are doing some of their cutting-edge research in China.
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That's an order .... I do not want [Assistant Attorney General Richard] McLaren to run around prosecuting people, raising hell about conglomerates, stirring things up.
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The company, which claims to be Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing app, announced a strategic partnership with Lippo Group, one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates.
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An educational rat-race and intense competition for socially respected jobs, concentrated in the biggest conglomerates, makes life for teens and 20-somethings stressful.
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The petrolão ("big oily"), as the scandal is known, has landed bosses of its largest construction conglomerates in jail and helped topple Brazil's president.
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"The Hollywood of mavericks, rascals, cowboys and larger-than-life personalities, not the conglomerates that now rule through mediocrity and make movies by consensus."
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Despite a bitter takeover battle over Gucci between France's biggest luxury conglomerates, the Gucci brand flourished under the creative director and designer Tom Ford.
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Choi, 60, is also accused of embezzlement, forcing conglomerates to make massive donations to nonprofit foundations, and getting preferential treatment from banks for loans.
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Such combinations will be helped by the second trend that the merger underscores: the constant re-engineering of old-fashioned industrial structures, especially conglomerates.
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In the corporate space, meanwhile, calls are growing for structural change at top chaebols, or family-run conglomerates, amid a slew of recent woes.
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One important element of China's state sector plan has been merging the giant state behemoths, in an attempt to create large, globally competitive conglomerates.
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The 5 largest conglomerates combining health insurance and pharmacy benefits are on track this year to be bigger than the 5 preeminent tech companies.
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Ethnic Chinese make up less than 5 percent of Indonesia's population, but they control many of its large conglomerates and much of its wealth.
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Let me first say a bit about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which is what brought us these financial conglomerates in the first place.
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Christine Tan will also be speaking to Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah AO, Founder and Chairman at Sunway Group, one of Malaysia's largest conglomerates.
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Indonesia's cukong entrepreneurs (Sino-Indonesian capitalists favored by General Suharto) and what became large Sino-Thai conglomerates in Thailand exemplify the spread of corruption.
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Other non-state conglomerates have also been under pressure to sell stakes, including Tomorrow Group, with interests in more than 30 domestic financial institutions.
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At that point, attempts to regulate digital conglomerates for the health of the internet and the people who use it would face serious headwinds.
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And a new doctrine of shareholder value led big firms, such as RJR Nabisco, to be broken-up and sprawling conglomerates to become focused.
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In the eyes of Republicans, media conglomerates and telecom giants that aspire to grow even larger, Pai's tenure at the FCC has been liberating.
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But frustration has grown that the wealth amassed by the largest conglomerates has not trickled down to average workers in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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But the remaining conglomerates are under pressure to sell off pieces or at least review their portfolios to make sure they still make sense.
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In the real world, however, most of us derive the lion's share of calories from edibles supplied by a handful of giant food conglomerates.
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South Korea's Constitutional Court forced Park from office over an influence-peddling involving one of her close friends and the country's powerful "chaebol" conglomerates.
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Earlier this month, the government proposed stiff tax hikes targeting leading conglomerates, high-income individuals and investors with large holdings of South Korean shares.
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However, troubling dangers also lurk within our domestic borders as some generic conglomerates allegedly conspire to stretch consumers' wallets to obtain many basic drugs.
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The country's powerful family-run conglomerates are implementing generational succession amid growing calls from the government and public to improve transparency and corporate governance.
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Public approval of Lee's prosecution may underscore growing frustration in Asia's fourth-largest economy that the wealth amassed by conglomerates has not trickled down.
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Kim said that Hyundai has stayed put even as many of South Korea's top conglomerates have moved to unwind cross shareholdings in recent years.
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They're gonna be hard-pressed to pay ISP carrier fees, and their choices will be to sell out to conglomerates, or fold up altogether.
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Baoshang Bank came to prominence after its key stakeholder Tomorrow Holdings was targeted in a government crackdown on systemic risks posed by financial conglomerates.
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The list, which was first reported by the Brazilian journalist Fernando Rodrigues, demonstrates the close ties between Brazil's politicians and the nation's construction conglomerates.
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Speaking to executives from the country's top 30 conglomerates on Wednesday, Moon pledged to increase spending to help firms source parts and materials domestically.
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Critics said that failing to set more ambitious targets could make European carmakers vulnerable to faster moving competitors like Tesla or emerging Chinese conglomerates.
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The dissolution of Uber's relationship with Google demonstrates the finicky nature of the ties that bind — or break — tech conglomerates and promising start-ups.
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Ketcham advocates for barring cattle from grazing on public lands and ending the reign of conglomerates that use federal subsidies to undermine independent ranchers.
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Northern California media companies now reach two billion people every day, taking billions of dollars in advertising revenue from the East Coast media conglomerates.
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Opinions are divided, though, on whether a suspension of a stock market that includes giant conglomerates like San Miguel Corp, can actually support sentiment.
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China, the show insists, remains loyal to socialism, despite having as many as 800 or more billionaires, rising high-tech conglomerates and gaping inequalities.
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But the founding families still dominate almost all the conglomerates, in part, critics say, because of lax enforcement of corporate governance and tax laws.
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It's not, and big banks blame in-house teams of advisers that have proliferated as the country's top family-owned conglomerates tighten their grip.
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Hospital consolidation has been a real problem in some states, with patients finding limited access to primary care services that hospital conglomerates now dominate.
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Since Mr. Bewkes took over as chief executive in 2008, Time Warner has delivered the highest stock market returns of the big media conglomerates.
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All candidates have pledged to overhaul the chaebol, the family-controlled conglomerates that have dominated the economy for decades, to make them more transparent.
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Critics blame the conglomerates for a number of social ills, including corruption, inequality and the crowding out of smaller and potentially more innovative businesses.
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He has pledged to crack down on corruption and seek to reform the chaebols, the huge family-run conglomerates that dominate South Korea's economy.
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During Lula's and his successor Rousseff's stints in power, the Workers Party threw the weight of the state behind a group of handpicked conglomerates.
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U.S. media conglomerates are trying to hold on in struggling newspaper markets, while their reporters, editors and photographers are unionizing to protect their rights.
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The rhinos are a herd of Chinese tycoons who have used a combination of political connections and raw ambition to create sprawling global conglomerates.
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The brothers eventually settled their dispute in 2005 when their mother, Kokilaben Ambani, intervened and arranged a demerger, splitting the conglomerates' control between the two.
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The smaller of the two conglomerates, Edgewell had 15% of the wet shave razor market in 2018, compared to Gillette's half, according to Nielsen data.
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The firm now thinks large industrial conglomerates like United Tech and fellow Dow component GE are now more attractive after lagging the market this year.
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Via her friendship with Park, Choi was found guilty of meddling in state affairs, as well as wielding influence over large conglomerates in the country.
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Grupo de Energia de Bogota, one of Colombia's biggest electrical conglomerates, has the contract but will need the continued blessing of locals to go ahead.
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Rajawali Group, which owns a controlling stake in Eagle High, is one of Indonesia's biggest conglomerates, with companies involved in media, telecommunications, mining and plantations.
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The 1987 democracy movement and the creation of unions at Hyundai Group and other large conglomerates led to widespread wage increases in the early 8.13s.
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Most complaints probably wouldn't come from individual artists, but from conglomerates like Viacom, Sony, or Disney, which own huge amounts of the pop culture landscape.
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It came despite the fact that collusion between the state and its chaebol, the large conglomerates behind South Korea's economic boom, has long been tolerated.
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Ahn Chong-bum, one of the fired presidential aides, is also being interrogated on suspicion of pressing the conglomerates (some of which are being questioned).
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So now the giant international diary conglomerates have found a group of senators who are willing to feign confusion in order to do their bidding.
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You get it easy from Walmart and you get it easy from Amazon, but that's because they're huge conglomerates who don't pay their workers enough.
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Public opinion has in recent years grown less tolerant of leniency extended to the heads of conglomerates, or chaebols, for the sake of the economy.
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The boss of one of the conglomerates recalls how difficult it was to balance rapid expansion of his brands against losing a perception of exclusivity.
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Many of South Korea's top conglomerates, like LG, Hyundai, SK, Lotte, and Hanwha, are family-run chaebol where power is traditionally passed down through generations.
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The management of our lives by international conglomerates or by governments forms a latticework of commitments, obligations, and pressures that are constantly tearing us apart.
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High-ups in the chaebol, family-owned conglomerates which prospered under Ms Park's father, have routinely been convicted of criminal wrongdoing, then offered presidential pardons.
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China's leading industrial conglomerates and technology companies all have Communist Party committees, and such rhetoric is not unusual now, said Tse of Gao Feng Advisory.
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It is being forced to divest from Phoenix due to new regulation that prohibits conglomerates from holding stakes in both financial and non-financial businesses.
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And though the DEA may not pursue small-scale sellers, it may enforce those federal laws if consumer product conglomerates decide to enter the space.
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American and other foreign companies have long complained that the Chinese government gives preferential treatment to home-grown businesses, especially conglomerates owned by the state.
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Koc and Sabanci, conglomerates that span banking to white goods to retail, have long been synonymous with corporate Turkey and its secular, Western-facing elite.
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Fresh sanctions should be considered on two military-run conglomerates, the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), Lee said.
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In the wake of the political scandal in which Park was accused of receiving bribes from conglomerates, chaebol reform is also high on the agenda.
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He sat atop EBX, then one of the world's most expansive industrial conglomerates, with units ranging from oil and shipping to entertainment and beauty care.
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In 22000, he and Dick sold Nutmeg Mills to VF Corporation, one of the largest clothing conglomerates in the world, for more than $350 million.
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Cricket is the most popular sport in India and teams in the IPL count Bollywood stars and major conglomerates such as Reliance Industries as investors.
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Filipino tycoon John Gokongwei gave entrepreneurs advice in an interview in 2007, and shared how tenacity built one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines.
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Beijing's crackdown this year on high-profile overseas ventures has drawn in several groups such as Wanda, forcing the conglomerates to reduce their dealmaking ambitions.
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Sources familiar with the matter said potential bidders for the Philippine firm included Southeast Asian hospital groups, large Asian conglomerates, private equity and local firms.
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Industry experts said the trade war could exacerbate a long-term trend of family farms succumbing to economic pressures and selling to larger multinational conglomerates.
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Circular shareholdings have been common among Korea's powerful family-controlled conglomerates, or chaebols, who have faced growing calls for reform from the government and investors.
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Impeached former president Park Geun-hye was dismissed last month over a corruption scandal that has implicated some conglomerates and rocked the country for months.
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The management of our lives by international conglomerates or by governments forms a latticework of commitments, obligations, and pressures that are constantly tearing us apart.
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Mexican conglomerates Alfa and Grupo Bal are also both listed and have oil and gas units, but investors can not directly invest in those units.
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To be fair, Silicon Valley isn't entirely to blame for journalism's misfortune: Greedy media conglomerates and hedge funds deserve a large share of the blame.
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Over 40,85033 documents were stolen in breaches of two conglomerates that began in 2014 and were discovered in February, officials said, according to multiple sources.
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The top-down chaebol structure that allows for quick decision-making that has partly fueled the conglomerates' expansion in past decades can also create bottlenecks.
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As the economy loses steam, the government has also pledged to promote new industries to cut reliance on big conglomerates, such as Hyundai and Samsung.
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Saying that all naturopaths practice pseudoscience is like saying that all founders of sandwich conglomerates are pedophiles just because Jared from Subway was molesting children.
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They are forced to compete with dozens of books backed by powerful conglomerates, books that, given their clout, swallow up shrinking critical coverage as well.
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Choi also faces separate charges, which have yet to be heard, of extortion, abuse of power and attempted fraud to extort bribes from business conglomerates.
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The Fed's extraordinary step of recommending legislative repeal of merchant banking authority for bank conglomerates must be evaluated in this broader legal and historical context.
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Further underscoring their letter's weight, the women note that they also write on behalf of their companies, which include the music world's three dominant conglomerates.
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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a plan to encourage local journalism and limit the influence of billionaires running corporate media conglomerates (Columbia Journalism Review) … Sen.
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Those experts also said that such prioritization could stifle certain political voices or give the telecom conglomerates with media assets an edge over their rivals.
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Other conglomerates, from Honeywell to United Technologies to Tyco, have explored restructuring to varying degrees, as Wall Street analysts question the viability of the model.
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The White House should also prioritize policy that gives small pharmacy business owners access to high-cost medications that are exclusive to large corporate conglomerates.
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Freeze also said an advantage that Amazon and Alphabet have over other FANG stocks is their structure as conglomerates, which gives them multiple growth levers.
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As the rallied on nothing other than Alphabet's strength, the big industrial stocks fell after President praised , which tend to hurt industrial conglomerates, Cramer said.
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People, she added, should stop expecting the federal government to make it happen; public policy is too compromised by the interests of large food conglomerates.
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Primaries, on the other hand, don't even try—they're managed by both parties and major media conglomerates with a vested interest in maximizing ad revenues.
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The sentencing of the billionaire scion was a watershed for South Korea's decades-long economic order, which has been dominated by powerful, family-run conglomerates.
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From Aix-en-Provence to Reims, Tours and Strasbourg, bakeries, cafes and shops are increasingly being taken over by retail conglomerates with vast financial resources.
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In the investment management world these days, the deals are not coming from American or British banks but from big Asian conglomerates flush with cash.
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Some of the biggest media mergers of all time took place within the decade, pointing to the industry's power tilting in favor of massive conglomerates.
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Prince was replaced as chairman of the FSG board in December by Chang Zhenming, the chairman of CITIC, one of China's biggest state-owned conglomerates.
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MORE CARVE-OUTS Market participants expect disposals from Japanese conglomerates to drive LBO activity this year as global PE firms position themselves for these opportunities.
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The rupiah has gained 3 percent so far this year, but last year's 10 percent slide hindered many Indonesian conglomerates with U.S. dollar-denominated debt.
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Beijing has been trying to reform state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and to create globally competitive conglomerates in sectors including power generation, railways, shipping and chemicals.
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Irwin said energy storage affiliates of global conglomerates provide stiff competition and, so far, are ahead of Tesla in terms of total energy installation numbers.
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As Beijing's new vice major, he is now managing the city's financial issues, including the disposal of private financial conglomerates considered too big to fail.
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On paper, all five conglomerates are apparently predominantly privately owned, with the possible exception of Zhejiang Rossoner Investment which was only incorporated in June 2016.
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His and subsequent governments had favored a handful of family-owned conglomerates with tax benefits, lucrative business licenses and buy-Korean and anti-labor policies.
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One of Indonesia's poorest provinces, a legacy of the three-decade civil war with Jakarta, it has received comparatively little investment from Jakarta-based conglomerates.
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Chinese regulators have become increasingly concerned that some of the biggest conglomerates have borrowed so much that they could pose risks to the financial system.
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Companies and regulators could be making decisions without a complete picture of how the conglomerates work, while investors may not know what they are buying.
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The debt addiction is threatening China's economy as concerns swirl that some of the biggest conglomerates represent a hidden risk to the country's financial system.
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Officials here say they expect Beijing-backed conglomerates, such as the China Communications Construction Company, to bid hundreds of millions of euros for infrastructure concessions.
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Both firms, which are now owned by multinational conglomerates, have a long history of offering restaurants free fridges and furniture in return for exclusivity agreements.
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He has vowed to clean up politics, reform the powerful family-run conglomerates, or chaebol, that dominate the economy, and increase spending to create jobs.
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Kering, one of the world's largest luxury conglomerates, is temporarily shuttering stores in China and cutting back on ad spending in the region amid coronavirus fears.
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The second difficult category consists of acquisition sprees by leveraged conglomerates, financed by debt or by the funds that policyholders entrust to these firms' insurance subsidiaries.
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Some analysts say the state-backed conglomerates are the only entities able to handle the $50 billion or so in annual investment that the country needs.
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It's being co-led by L. Catterton, which is owned in part by the luxury goods conglomerates LVMH and Groupe Arnault; and investment bank Allen & Company.
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However, engineering consulting firms, like AECOM, and large infrastructure conglomerates, such Macquarie Infrastructure, would be the first groups to see some of that money, he said.
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Trade group All India Food Processors' Association (AIFPA), whose members range from street vendors to global conglomerates, said two industry-wide meetings were held in February.
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But it has fallen sharply since Beijing tightened capital controls in 2016, prompting a sell-off in assets by acquisitive Chinese conglomerates from HNA to Wanda.
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The power conglomerates' shopping spree also represents a boon for Chinese suppliers to the industry that are struggling with a domestic slowdown, executives and analysts said.
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She works for a company that sells information and projections to alcohol conglomerates who are eager for a solution to the challenges posed by legal cannabis.
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"Conglomerates are together but too often there are no synergies in them," says activist investor Carl Icahn, who's pushed for changes at industrial conglomerate Newell Brands.
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Thyssenkrupp, born of the merger of two German conglomerates in 1999, has bowed to frustrated shareholders: on September 30th it said it would split in two.
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The old family conglomerates evolved into keiretsu, looser, less familial groupings, revolving around a main bank and trading company, each member holding shares in the others.
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Tea plantations run by larger, more established, and more wealthy conglomerates tended to offer better living conditions than those run by smaller and less established companies.
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As a startup, Viv Labs faced an uphill battle to make its AI software competitive with services and products from conglomerates like Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
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"From the beginning, it would seem, Zuckerberg's plan was to take down "media corporations owned by conglomerates" in favor of an "open information flow for people.
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Unharmed corporate performance has in the past been taken as a sign that misconduct is so commonplace in South Korean conglomerates that investors do not care.
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The next step, Gabelli said, is for media conglomerates to be able to own and distribute content as well as increase connectivity on a global scale.
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Even in telecoms, where competition from Jio, of Reliance Industries, one of India's biggest conglomerates, has been relentless, rising share prices suggest business conditions are improving.
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With a pair of improbable billion-dollar acquisitions, huge conglomerates have snapped up both of the cheap shaving startups that shook up the men's grooming business.
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Efforts to profit from lower frictional financial costs – whether of raising money, managing risks or pleasing investors – have poisoned many companies, including a collection of conglomerates.
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This is a precedent that's trickled into mainstream social media conglomerates like YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat, which all hold an uncompromising outlaw policy on adult content.
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The scandal has also engulfed conglomerates like Posco, Samsung, and CJ, which were either pressured by presidential aides to fire staff or donate to Choi's foundations.
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The FCC licenses individual stations, not networks, and many of them are owned by massive media conglomerates which stand to benefit from business-friendly oversight regardless.
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Prosecution office spokesman Lee Kyu-chul did not elaborate on when the probe into Samsung may end or what other conglomerates the office plans to investigate.
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The battle is heating up between consumer packaged goods conglomerates Procter & Gamble and Unilever, which are both hungry for a larger slice of the razor market.
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Analysts say that as more upstarts get into the game, major food conglomerates are reacting in ways that suggest their hold on the public is slipping.
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Likewise, South Korean firms such as Samsung Electronics, which belong to giant conglomerates, can afford the R&D and marketing budgets needed to remain globally competitive.
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That began to change in 2011 when Thein Sein, then the country's president, ended the military conglomerates' tax exemptions and their import monopolies on many goods.
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He also worked on structured debt financings for Indonesian conglomerates Bakrie Group and CT Corp as well as Indian companies such as Alok Industries, among others.
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Chinese conglomerates are coming under scrutiny over showy deals amid fears about firms taking on too much debt, creating a potential risk for China's financial system.
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He has since founded a slew of companies and conglomerates, including Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, Virgin Express, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Hotels, Virgin Cruises and Virgin Galactic.
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The investigation is also expected to hit investor confidence not just towards Lotte, one of the country's more opaque conglomerates, but all chaebol, fund managers said.
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To be sure, the bulk of India's sour loans are in the state banks and stem from lending to large conglomerates, especially in steel and infrastructure.
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Breakups of conglomerates meet more resistance in cultures such as Germany's than in the United States, however, as labor leaders and other stakeholders have more influence.
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In February, United Technologies rebuffed Honeywell's $90 billion takeover bid in a public dispute surrounding the viability of combining two large industrial conglomerates without antitrust obstacles.
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Fitch does not expect a material decline in concentration levels due to the relatively limited corporate market in Guatemala, dominated by conglomerates and family-owned groups.
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Some of the biggest names and brightest minds will be on hand to discuss critical issues all players face — from early-stage startups to multinational conglomerates.
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Roepers began his investing career in the operations and corporate development departments at multibillion-dollar conglomerates Thyssen-Bornemisza Group (1984–88) and Dover Corp. (1980–82).
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"The control imposed by the Korean government on big conglomerates is still rather limited," said Steve Chung, assistant lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Identifying the exact source of the outbreak is proving to be difficult and this may be due to the sheer size of the modern farming conglomerates.
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Many of these products are inherently smaller in scale and never intend to be mass market—yet do frequently get gobbled up by public consumer conglomerates.
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However, given the complicated setup of media conglomerates, it's not possible to draw a definitive line between ownership, partnerships, and the delay of any Tomatometer scores.
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Second, a small number of mining conglomerates, or pools—many of them Chinese—have wielded outsized influence over the network and the decisions that get made.
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Although corruption scandals have regularly rocked family-controlled conglomerates, or chaebols, in South Korea, it is rare for the entire chaebol family to be indicted together.
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More recently, he has proposed breaking up cable conglomerates like Comcast and Time Warner as part of a plan to lower the cost of internet access.
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That has put the cash-rich conglomerates in a stronger position than some standalone brands that were already in turnaround mode when the coronavirus crisis hit.
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Shareholders — beyond activist investors like Dan Loeb's Third Point, which had pushed for change at Honeywell — have asserted that big conglomerates need to sharpen their focus.
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Efforts to profit from lower frictional financial costs — whether from raising money, managing risks or pleasing investors — have poisoned many companies, including a collection of conglomerates.
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That has put the cash-rich conglomerates in a stronger position than some standalone brands that were already in turnaround mode when the coronavirus crisis hit.
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Starbucks is leading the pack with ambitious green initiatives; tech conglomerates are reducing their carbon emissions; and disruptors are making sustainability their company's entire business model.
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While some conglomerates such as ABB are trying to hold their businesses together, others are embracing the trend either under pressure from investors or even willingly.
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Chinese regulators are reviewing deal agreements in minute details, and have cracked down on some large domestic conglomerates, including Fosun, for their debt-fuelled acquisitions abroad.
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Like most on the South Korean left, Mr. Moon is critical of the country's mega-conglomerates, and he aligns himself with the poor and working class.
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While those conglomerates have been responsible for propping up South Korea's economic growth in the past, many citizens have long demanded political authorities curtail their power.
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But Mr. Trump's decision to extend the corporate tax cut to real estate conglomerates like his own will give Democrats a tailor-made line of attack.
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As passive investing becomes more and more popular, Buffett likened index funds to conglomerates, saying the American public is going "wild" with enthusiasm for passive investing.
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Policy makers and analysts are worried that conglomerates like Wanda, with debt tentacles extending across the financial system, could threaten the health of the broader economy.
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"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke cares more about helping mining conglomerates than about protecting the [Boundary Waters Canoe Area]," McCollum said in a statement to the Post.
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Fenty is also the first brand that earned its chops on the social media stage to be backed by one of the major luxury conglomerates. 5.
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While many of the big names, like Charles Heidsieck, Krug and Ruinart, are owned by conglomerates, others like Billecart-Salmon, Philipponnat and Taittinger are family-run.
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Like many leaders of industrial conglomerates, United Technologies has been moving lower-value production elsewhere in a so-far successful bid to maintain strong profit margins.
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Besides regulatory roadblocks, the uncertainty about the ownership structures at the two conglomerates, however, led to some banks pulling back from those talks, the people said.
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They don't like scandals that might threaten their bottom line — or the bottom lines of the multinational media conglomerates of which most form a small part.
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Since these international conglomerates can't directly contribute to US elections, dumping cash into research institutions that lawmakers rely on represents an alternate route to influence them.
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In 1946 American administrators dissolved Japan's zaibatsu (large industrial and banking conglomerates), and Germany's Christian Democrats made competition their first priority in their economic manifesto in 1949.
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Tata Motors, part of the Tata Group, one of India's largest conglomerates, said it would decide on a new name for the hatchback after a few weeks.
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Lagerfeld's success at Chanel didn't merely benefit the brand; it also gave luxury conglomerates a blueprint for how to revamp historic fashion houses that had grown dusty.
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Conglomerates tend to be valued at a trading multiple of some of their lowest performing business resulting in the so-called conglomerate discount and higher refinancing costs.
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"So, indeed, we now have massive conglomerates with their hands in the indie pie, but what about truly independent producer-distributors or the mini-majors?" he asked.
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Comcast has outbid Twenty-First Century Fox for the UK's Sky, a final step in what's been a years-long takeover battle between the two media conglomerates.
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One challenge for funds in the space: There has been plenty of mergers and acquisition activity in recent years, which has tucked pet services into larger conglomerates.
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Both its main engine-making rivals, GE and UTC, are huge conglomerates, and churn out other products that can make up the shortfall; Rolls is more exposed.
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A Versace takeover would help it compete with the likes of Coach-parent Tapestry, which owns Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade, and other fashion conglomerates like LVMH.
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The result of all this was that the economy came to be dominated by a few conglomerates, heavily indebted in dollars and centred on the private banks.
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DMM, one of Japan's largest Internet and e-commerce conglomerates, announced today that it will pay 7 billion yen (about $62.2 million) for pawn shop app Cash.
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Prosecutors say she used her connections to coerce 50-odd conglomerates to funnel 80bn won ($603m) to two cultural foundations, K-Sports and Mir, that she controlled.
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Yanmei Xie of Gavekal Dragonomics, a research firm, is even blunter: policymakers "are trying to create conglomerates that can dominate domestic and international markets through sheer size".
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A range of enterprises participated, from startups to global conglomerates: plant factory design and engineering companies, irrigation and artificial mist suppliers, LED manufacturers and sensor technology developers.
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Over the last two years, Beijing has sought to overhaul its state-owned enterprise (SOEs) to create greater efficiencies and raise the international competitiveness of government conglomerates.
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Other high-flyers, notably HNA and Wanda, two of China's biggest private conglomerates, have also faced close scrutiny and are selling off assets to repay their debts.
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Among two of the biggest: Sony has a sizeable business in audio hardware; and, by way of Sony Music, one of the world's biggest recording label conglomerates.
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They are home to 73 businesses, including big media companies like Paramount and CBS, Japanese conglomerates such as Sony and Mitsubishi, and Danone, a French food conglomerate.
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The food industry has consolidated in the past few years, as slow-growing food conglomerates have combined to cut costs where they cannot grow the top line.
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ISTANBUL — Mustafa Koc, a prominent Turkish businessman who succeeded his father and grandfather in running one of the world's largest conglomerates, Koc Holding, died here on Thursday.
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For the Good Food Institute in particular, we have really good relationships with Tyson Foods, with Smithfield Foods, with Purdue, with huge chicken conglomerates and meat companies.
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It also happens to be one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world as it owns ABC, ESPN, A&E Network, and several other media platforms.
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Trump praised U.S. investments by SK, Lotte Group and other South Korean conglomerates and raised hopes that Korean companies will continue to expand in the United States.
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Other South Korean conglomerates such as Samsung and Lotte have made smaller bets on North Korea and will need to start from scratch if economic ties resume.
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Indeed, in an extensive special report on e-cigarettes, Newsweek flatly concluded that "the multimillion-dollar tobacco conglomerates are losing" the battle for the e-cigarette market.
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The suit was filed by Ruben Lopez, owner of Bona Fide Conglomerates, a company that lost a contract bid to clean the federal courthouse in Las Vegas.
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Israel's government in 2013 passed a law to reduce the concentration of economic power among conglomerates, barring them from holding both significant financial and non-financial businesses.
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While in 1997 the majority of the biggest companies on the index were local conglomerates -- or "Hongs" -- today the Hang Seng Index is dominated by Chinese firms.
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Meanwhile, the military government is setting up a social enterprise company nationwide to improve the rural economy, with provinces owning three-quarters and Thai conglomerates the rest.
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HNA Group has grown into one of China's biggest aviation, logistics and services conglomerates, controlling 11 companies listed on the mainland China and Hong Kong stock markets.
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Choi Go-woon, an analyst at Korea Investment & Securities, said several conglomerates or a consortium of firms involved with duty free businesses might be interested in Asiana.
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Those profits go to the patent-holding company itself, which these days is one of ever-fewer multinational seed conglomerates, while farmers watch their seed prices skyrocket.
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The regulations, which tighten market access for financial conglomerates, are a key measure to contain the country's financial risks "right at the start," according to the PBOC.
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Conglomerates under pressure from corruption probes and excessive debt were forced to sell major assets last year, lifting the value of Brazilian M&A by 33 percent.
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Intriguingly, it is consistent that the conglomerates who have taken this strategy are ones whose operations in television, radio, data, and telecom outweigh any involvement in newspapers.
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A sentimentalist is someone who doesn't just relish a good cry but is moved by that which is designed by entertainment conglomerates to evoke such a response.
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At the same time, Hollywood's two biggest remaining content conglomerates, the Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox, indicated that they would fight the deal in Washington.
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The potential sale of Simon & Schuster is part of a great unwinding taking place across the media industry as conglomerates cleave off or close down ancillary businesses.
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But thanks to the power of the internet and tech conglomerates such as Google and Facebook, companies now have a lot more data about us than before.
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Yanolja has become the eighth South Korean unicorn to have valuation of more than $1 billion, in a country dominated by large conglomerates like Samsung and Hyundai.
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The verdict upended expectations that South Korea would no longer let the leaders of its powerful, family-run conglomerates — known as chaebol — break the law with impunity.
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However, some of the largest South Korean conglomerates lost out heavily in the North when the previous round of inter-Korean reconciliation in the early 2000s ended.
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The players range from conglomerates like the Corona importer Constellation Brands, which has invested $4 billion in the Canadian marijuana producer Canopy Growth, to small craft brewers.
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Activision Blizzard's Overwatch League is one of the most popular esports competitions in the world and the investors range from Patriots owner Robert Kraft to Chinese conglomerates.
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The service looks, and feels, like something designed from a bygone internet era that wasn't dominated by unregulated tech conglomerates with monopolistic holds on the attention economy.
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Unlike the sector in the United States, where large conglomerates hold millions of laying chickens, the average farmer in the Netherlands has 40,000 to 50,000 laying chickens.
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The last one, Park Geun-hye, was impeached in a corruption scandal that cast a spotlight on the enduring power of family-controlled conglomerates known as chaebol.
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He was the lone surviving founder of the five giant, family-run conglomerates — Hyundai (HYMTF), LG (LPL), Lotte, Samsung (SSNLF) and SK — that dominate South Korea's economy.
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If Mr. Lee is arrested, it will be a milestone in South Korea's efforts to fight corruption involving the country's powerful family-controlled conglomerates, known as chaebol.
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"We won't use the increase or decrease in the number of conglomerates or the size of firms to influence our targets (in restructuring of SOEs)," Xiao said.
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The biggest stuff — gazillions for defense, massive subsidies for agriculture conglomerates, a down payment on the vanity border wall — just seems beyond my capacity for targeted outrage.
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Much of this staggering wealth stemmed from Castro's oversight of a range of state-backed concerns, including retail and pharmaceutical conglomerates, as well as Havana's convention center.
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And there was a run, a very abusive run in conglomerates where they played with numbers and they had dirty pooling as they call it of accounting.
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The term first gained currency in the United States when it was used by a Berkeley English professor, Peter Dale Scott, to refer to big oil conglomerates.
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JBS, once a family-run butcher, grew into a global player during the past decade, catching a wave of Workers Party policies to stimulate home-grown conglomerates.
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Volkswagen's Truck & Bus division, which houses the MAN and Scania brands, may follow a wider trend among carmakers and suppliers to dismantle conglomerates into more specialized businesses.
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The emergence and diffusion of best practices may actually be accelerating thanks to the emergence of a few big strip club conglomerates, like RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc.
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Even if major conglomerates get legal punishment, they will head in a more positive direction compared to the past now that some uncertainties have been partly removed.
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But that misses the full story, which is that a small handful of conglomerates have for a long time operated a vast portion of the fashion landscape.
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Media conglomerates and large corporations like The Hindu newspaper in Chennai and the multinational Tata Group in Mumbai led the charge, sponsoring festivals in their traditional home bases.
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Its latest interest comes as Taiwan's government has been encouraging more investment into Southeast Asia, with Taiwanese financial conglomerates seeking to diversify revenue for their competitive home market.
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Many Chinese VCs are well-connected, and a respectful, productive relationship with these investors can help you open doors to wealthy investor conglomerates eager to fund promising startups.
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Increased scrutiny from both governments on such cross-border investments, and Beijing's efforts to stem capital outflows and debt buildup by some major conglomerates contributed to the drop.
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He was also information security counsel and chief compliance officer of one of the world's largest luxury conglomerates at which he was responsible for whistleblowing procedures and investigations.
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"LESS IS MORE" During its six-year term, the Pena Nieto administration purchased some $2.5 billion in advertising, favoring big contracts with media conglomerates Televisa and TV Azteca.
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"A number of banks are already at the cap for lending to the largest conglomerates, so that's a challenge they will have to manage," said Panis at Moody's.
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China has been encouraging its industrial firms to rise up the value chain through technical innovation and tougher efficiency standards, with the aim of creating globally competitive conglomerates.
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What little time bosses of the remaining conglomerates have between juggling duties at disparate business units will be spent fending off investors clamouring for empires to be dismantled.
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While he did not have permission to name Signia's new limited partners, the investor said they ranged from large endowments that focus on children's education, to tech conglomerates.
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The dynamic contrasts with recent years, when Brazilian conglomerates under pressure from corruption probes and excessive debt sold assets mainly to foreign strategic investors and global buyout firms.
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But now the conventional wisdom is that the big media conglomerates all need to own their own services, which they will market directly to consumers, just like Netflix.
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South Koreans are broadly supportive of his efforts to tame conglomerates, root out corruption and create a more equitable society by improving health care, pensions and labour conditions.
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With his health deteriorating, David Koch stepped down from his role at Koch Industries, one of America's biggest privately held conglomerates, where his brother, Charles, is chief executive.
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Mergers among central government-controlled SOE conglomerates were accelerating, said Peng Huagang, deputy secretary-general of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), state radio said.
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Demands are intensifying to reform South Korea's chaebol, the mighty conglomerates that helped forge the country's economy but which are now often criticised for cosy ties with politicians.
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Danaher now holds its place as one of the world's largest science and technology conglomerates, after Culp more than quintupled the company's market value and revenues while CEO.
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Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger has been talking with Fox about the possibility of a mashup between the two media conglomerates, according to a CNBC report on Monday.
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Danaher now holds its place as one of the world's largest science and technology conglomerates, after Culp more than quintupled the company's market value and revenue while CEO.
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"A challenge in the wine industry is that it consists of a small number of large conglomerates," Saunders says, referring to the likes of Gallo, Constellation and Treasury.
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Instead (though not necessarily due to the Act) we saw connectivity and media companies engulf each other, forming enormous conglomerates like AOL Time Warner and Comcast NBC Universal.
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The rise of just a few high-performing sectors clustered in certain areas and takeovers of local businesses by national conglomerates has hollowed out much of the country.
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This is bigger than those two companies, because a lot of other media conglomerates are hanging in the balance based on what this judge rules minutes from now.
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The strategic shift by many of the non-state conglomerates has been accidental but necessary, said one senior Asia banker who has worked with some of the companies.
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"If conglomerates come in, my answer is: God bless 'em — it saves me the hassle," Tommy Chong, a pioneer of California weed culture, told the New York Times.
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Critic score: 87%Audience score: 80%What it's about: The HBO series follows one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world and the family which controls it.
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HNA, one of China's most acquisitive conglomerates, has seen its banking relationships put to test since the summer, as Beijing cracks down on what it deems excessive deals.
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Industrial import substitution has not made Russian manufacturing globally competitive, but it helped to increase market share of the bloated state conglomerates at the expense of Western firms.
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Chinese conglomerates have become increasingly sensitive to suggestions of financial woes this year amid rising scrutiny by regulators of perceived "risky" investments and high levels of corporate debt.
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Former president Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in jail this month on charges of receiving or demanding bribes from top conglomerates including Samsung and Lotte.
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A job at today's conglomerates—Alphabet, Apple, Amazon or Facebook—increasingly resembles one at General Electric in the 1980s: making up in perks what it lacks in sizzle.
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The country's competition chief just unveiled new rules to rein in multi-layered conglomerates, in what will be the first rewrite of antitrust rules in nearly four decades.
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Andy Stone, a spokesman for Facebook, noted that several other ads related to her plan to break up Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, among other tech conglomerates, were unaffected.
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TRAPPIST hopes to provide a musical outlet for those who've turned their back on breweries that have been gobbled up by international conglomerates like MillerCoors and AB InBev.
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Today, Tubular's clients include ad and PR agencies, creative studios, media and entertainment conglomerates and brands behind popular products seeking to spend their advertising and sponsorship dollars wisely.
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The House of Mouse has been around for more than 9 decades, and the company is currently under pressure as other media conglomerates look to disrupt its empire.
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China Merchants, one of the country's biggest conglomerates, has been looking for cheap shipping and commodities-related assets in Europe, hoping to take advantage of the market downturn.
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Rooted in property, Wanda is one of a handful of Chinese conglomerates that have expanded aggressively abroad over the past few years, into areas beyond their original business.
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On his visit to Pyongyang this week, Mr. Moon brought the heads of state-backed rail and energy corporations, along with the CEOs of South Korea's top conglomerates.
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Shares of Apache Corp jumped 16.9% and Marathon Oil Corp gained 11.6%, while major energy conglomerates, including Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp, rose 1.5% and 22008%, respectively.
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For Medtech conglomerates with thousands of devices, the bill to meet the new regulations could stretch into the millions of dollars - especially for those that make riskier devices.
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The sale, revealed in a statement dated Wednesday on the bank's website, comes amid government efforts to tame financial and credit risk among smaller lenders and private conglomerates.
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The government seized control of Anbang in February 2018 under a broader campaign to curb risk after an asset-buying spree by a handful of private-sector conglomerates.
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Despite those hurdles, UBS analysts say Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is less exposed than some other media conglomerates like Disney that are facing many of the same issues.
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Court documents showed Park pressed conglomerates including Samsung Group to make donations to Choi-backed foundations and separately asked Samsung to support the equestrian training of Choi's daughter.
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Local news may need more than is offered here, though disempowering the hedge funds and conglomerates that have wreaked so much havoc is a good place to start.
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In 1889, the company that Thomas A. Edison founded joined with two others to form what would become one of the most storied conglomerates in the United States.
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Plans to build a dozen new reactors in Japan were canceled after that, a gut punch for some of the country's biggest industrial conglomerates, including Toshiba and Hitachi.
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Conglomerates like Maersk often trade at a discount to companies focused on one business, while their advocates say a broad spread of activities makes for less volatile earnings.
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In South Korea, Ms. Park was seen as conspiring with cronies in the vast corporate conglomerates, known as chaebol, that wield disproportionate power and have histories of corruption.
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These include entities such as the National Iranian Oil Company, large semi-public conglomerates whose top executives are chosen by ministers, and companies owned by government pension funds.
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Mr. Moon wants to give minority shareholders more power in electing board members of such conglomerates, which he says could ultimately dilute the families' control over the chaebol.
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Coupled with a "lack of interest in traditional conglomerates," more spinoffs from GE, Johnson Controls, Honeywell and others are likely in the near future, according to the firm.
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While India and other countries face similar challenges in creating jobs for skilled labor, the dominance of family-run conglomerates known as chaebol makes South Korea uniquely vulnerable.
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Hanjin KAL, the airline's parent company, missed a deadline to tell the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), which regulates the conglomerates, who would take over as the company's legal representative.
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There must be a way to bring minor candidates into the limelight—and not just to sell commercials for media conglomerates, but because candidates have good and new ideas.
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The probe into the country's fourth-biggest conglomerate by assets would be the latest of a string of troubles faced by families controlling the country's conglomerates, known as chaebols.
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And I think that's what's interesting about the acquisitions and the mergers and the big conglomerates that have been formed with the likes of Verizon and AT&T, etc.
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But by the 1990s most began slimming down, and the best-known remaining industrial conglomerates are now determined to shrink (General Electric) or shake off the conglomerate label (3M).
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Mori Trust (one of Japan's leading real estate business operators), Itochu (one of Japan's largest trading conglomerates) and Mercuria (a leading Japanese equity firm) also participated in the financing.
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While dominance has led to hefty bottom lines at a number of well-known conglomerates able to maintain sizable market share, regulatory troubles could be brewing for a few.
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But the analysts added that regulators could still object to combining the two companies' other jet-component operations and, to a lesser extent, the conglomerates' fire and security divisions.
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At the time, Toshiba—which like other conglomerates of its type invests in all kinds of businesses—thought that investing in nuclear reactors would be a good financial decision.
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He has appointed Kim Sang-jo, known as the "chaebol sniper", to head the Fair Trade Commission, raising expectations that he will try to reduce the big conglomerates' clout.
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INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES have long been considered the megafauna of the corporate world: big beasts like mastodons, who were condemned to extinction by spear-wielding corporate raiders in the 1980s.
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The probe into the country's fourth-biggest conglomerate by assets would be the latest in a string of troubles faced by families controlling the country's conglomerates, known as chaebols.
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Wang Jian, the co-founder and chairman of HNA, one of China's biggest private conglomerates, died after falling from a wall in a village he was visiting in Provence.
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Revised projections showing the lackluster growth of this demographic have led foreign conglomerates like Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Cadbury and Eveready to cut their Africa work force in recent months.
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The growth of conglomerates initially increased competition: in addition to Air Koryo, for example, a riding club, a ski resort and a phone company also set up taxi services.
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China has already cut the number of SASAC-controlled conglomerates to 98, from 117 five years ago, following key mega-mergers in the power, heavy machinery and steel sectors.
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It comes as a handful of Chinese conglomerates including Fosun have turned their sights back on the domestic market amid a crackdown by Beijing on eye-catching overseas ventures.
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Half of the investment came from Chinese insurance companies, with conglomerates and property developers also actively investing overseas, representing 23 percent and 10 percent respectively, of the total figure.
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The 10 companies with the most cash overseas are either tech or pharma conglomerates: Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Google's parent Alphabet, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer and Merck.
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This might also explain why Hong Kong's biggest conglomerates such as CK Hutchison and Swire Pacific have had little to say on the subject of the city's political turbulence.
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"This is good for the entire transport sector, which includes airlines, trucking companies, and freight companies as well as fast food conglomerates and retailers (especially lower-end)," Kilduff said.
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Naver is also tying up with huge conglomerates Sony in Japan and LG Electronics in South Korea, to get the Clova into toys and home appliances down the road.
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Publications from across the ideological spectrum—National Review, The Nation, Esquire, Harvard Business Review—have called for reining in Big Tech, and, in some cases, breaking up tech conglomerates.
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Separately, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), which overseas central government conglomerates, will select three to five companies as pilot state asset investment firms, Xinhua said.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Votorantim SA, one of Brazil's largest diversified conglomerates, on Thursday reported a significant increase in second-quarter profit, helped by lower debt servicing expenses.
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South Korea only realized in February that Kim Jong-un's band of hackers had been infiltrating its networks after defense related material was stolen from two South Korean conglomerates.
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They call for a bit more oversight and a few new charges on shadow banking activity, but they leave intact the titanic financial conglomerates that practice most shadow banking.
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AT&T and Time Warner have reportedly agreed to merge in a deal that would make them one of the biggest media distribution and production conglomerates in the world.
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But in recent years he set about courting conglomerates like the Walt Disney Company and 21991st Century Fox, which were eager to profit on Vice's cachet with millennial audiences.
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Investment from conglomerates will be crucial to establishing inter-Korea transport links and revitalizing an industrial park in the border region of Kaesong — two projects close to Moon's heart.
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The idea that medicine has effective treatment for every problem is assumed by many and an oft-repeated message of the expanding marketing departments of most health care conglomerates.
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If those deals clear antitrust review, the three largest PBMs in the country — Express Scripts, CVS and OptumRx — would all be tied to the hip of health insurance conglomerates.
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Today craft is omnipresent—on banners hung by the largest liquor conglomerates in the world and splattered in faux-fancy fonts on the tops of thousands of cocktail menus.
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Industrial conglomerates like Siemens - whose activities span industrial software to medical scanners - have become increasingly unloved by investors, who favor companies with simpler businesses they can more easily value.
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In what may be another sign of the tensions between the entrenched music industry and the streaming service, the three conglomerates have lately favored Spotify's rivals with promotional goodies.
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But in recent years he set about courting conglomerates like the Walt Disney Company and 22000st Century Fox, which were eager to profit on Vice's cachet with millennial audiences.
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Then, in 1998, spurred by the Asian financial crisis, the Korean government altered its economic strategy, branching out from heavy industry and electronics-focused conglomerates into pop culture businesses.
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Mr. Frère, who was named a baron by King Albert II of Belgium in 1994, knew no borders as he bought and sold major stakes in blue-chip conglomerates.
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With Ms. Masoni's help, Oregon's is extremely successful, luring not just food makers and farmers from the Northwest, but also international conglomerates that keep their work there hush-hush.
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It is seeking potential foreign investors from financial conglomerates, sovereign wealth funds, and long-term private equity funds, according to Zhang Shixue, general manager of its strategic development department.
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The government has ordered a series of mergers between central government-controlled conglomerates over the five-year period, cutting them to 55.13 from 117 under the control of SASAC.
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The deal was reached despite authorities in China cracking down on some overseas investments because of concerns about increasing levels of debt at some of the country's biggest conglomerates.
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Last February, it was proposed that the plan be extended to the private sector to incentivize large conglomerates to hire more women and change the male-centric corporate culture.
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The interesting thing is, of course, is the American public has been going wild in their enthusiasm for conglomerates in the last few years, if you think about it.
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It's not unusual for acquirers, whether they are large, independent enterprises, other startups or private equity-backed conglomerates, to pay for their purchases with shares of their own stock.
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AMC has been caught up in the scrutiny surrounding its owner, Dalian Wanda, which is among several Chinese conglomerates that have borrowed heavily to finance deals around the world.
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Advertising agency conglomerates WPP, Publicis, Omnicom and Interpublic are set to see three years of muted growth, according to a note from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) analysts.
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This case was seen as a test of whether the country's democracy and judicial system were ready to crack down on the white-collar crimes of family-owned conglomerates.
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Data science is about to reshape marketing, Mr. Nix maintained, and the big advertising conglomerates would survive only by developing their own targeting technology — or acquiring companies like Cambridge.
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The government took control of Anbang in February, part of a sweeping campaign to reduce financial risk and discourage what it sees as profligate investing by large private conglomerates.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The South Korean government, long a bastion of support for the country's big conglomerates, is sticking to its hard-line stance on Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd 117930.
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While the country remains dominated by its chaebol tech conglomerates — none more important than Samsung — it's the country's startup and culture industries that are driving dynamism in this economy.
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And, so, in addition to the éleveurs (animal farmers), there are agriculteurs (farmers in general), knife-makers, beekeepers, hot-tub venders, insurance agents, representatives of feed conglomerates, backhoe salesmen.
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Or maybe, they thought, Compagnie Financière Richemont, the Swiss luxury group that owns Alaïa, would do what so many other conglomerates have done and install a new star designer.
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Economics are behind the shift — a lot of big studios are embedded within conglomerates that are ending relationships with Netflix as they funnel shows to their own streaming services.
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With the federal government not enforcing antitrust laws, we have seen mergers like the Bayer-Monsanto approved, giving the two largest conglomerates 78 percent of the corn seed market.
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