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conglomerate

[kuhn-glom-er-it, kuhng-, kuhn-glom-uh-reyt, kuhng-] / kənˈglɒm ər ɪt, kəŋ-, kənˈglɒm əˌreɪt, kəŋ- /




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Fendi, owned since 2001 by French conglomerate LVMH, hired Chiuri last October, bringing the Roman back to the house where she started her career in accessories under Lagerfeld.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

Just a week after Comcast announced a plan to spin off NBCUniversal, the Philadelphia media-and-broadband conglomerate said it’s buying a British broadcaster.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Tech conglomerate SoftBank—a proxy for the AI trade—Advantest and Kioxia, to name a few, have oscillated sharply as market sentiment flits between euphoria over the technology’s long-term promise and pessimism over monetization and sky-high valuations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

The conglomerate now helmed by Greg Abel said in late May that it would buy the mid-cap home builder Taylor Morrison.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

The federal government, representing the Osage Nation, had filed a lawsuit against Enel, the Italian energy conglomerate that owned the wind farm.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Together with Disney, Universal, and Sony, just four conglomerates would control 86% percent of that market.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Along with “large conglomerates that are materially involved” in optics and photonics, there are also “peer plays” held by the fund, he noted.

From MarketWatch May 15, 2026

Liu said he recognizes that designers, after a time, get fatigued with profit-driven conglomerates and begin to delve into other art forms.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2026

Consumer goods conglomerates have been trying to slim down their operations as they struggle to deal with stubborn inflation and slow growth.

From Barron's Mar. 31, 2026

Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

"All of these are just in a kind of conglomerated business under Elon Musk's name."

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Late on Monday, Abu Dhabi-based conglomerated International Holding Co. said it will make a $381 million investment into Adani Enterprises.

From Seattle Times Jan. 31, 2023

The former is supposed to lead to the latter, as it seemingly has for the five companies conglomerated under the intimidating acronym FAANG.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2021

I’ve written extensively elsewhere with co-authors about why it makes sense for media companies to break apart rather than stay conglomerated.

From Forbes Mar. 26, 2015

I speak of the swarming empires that have conglomerated within our memories.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

Possible answers invoke myriad world-making methods, from titanic impacts to the gluing together of spaceborne hail, where the conglomerating force of gravity may battle disruptions from magnetic whirlpools that nascent worlds are thought to encounter.

From New York Times Jul. 23, 2021

“The Globes have exhibited some amount of prescience in conglomerating film and television,” said Matti Leshem, a movie producer and the chief executive of Protagonist, a Hollywood branding company.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2013

In an era when most multinational firms have given up their old conglomerating ways, Jardines retains a panoply of seemingly unconnected businesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

With such sales, no wonder the conglomerates are conglomerating in the record business.

From Time Magazine Archive

In June the military chiefs at Washington were vainly doing all that military men could do to make something like the beginnings of an army out of the conglomerating mass.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry




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