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conglomerate

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




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Starting in 1990 as a transport company, Ravatomanga's Sodiat Group expanded into a sprawling conglomerate spanning automotive distribution, aviation, private security, media, construction, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, tourism and Madagascar's lucrative vanilla trade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Financial Times leads on the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, as he considers merging his two companies SpaceX and Tesla into a "sprawling conglomerate spanning rockets, satellites, social media, robots and cars".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The company recently completed a multiyear restructuring which carved the industrial conglomerate into three publicly traded companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some such tracks feature electronic noise and effects from experimental Japanese composer Ryoji Ikeda, like “Xerox Altalink B8055,” which has dialogue from a spot for industrial conglomerate 3M.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

I’m talking about the five Japanese conglomerates, or “trading houses,” in which Buffett has been investing for six years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Since the 1980s, Latin American broadcast media has become increasingly dominated by a small number of large commercial conglomerates, mostly tied to wealthy, powerful families.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

"We've been putting solar panels on our malls just to save on energy," Frederic DyBuncio, president and CEO of SM Investments Corp, told AFP, adding that the country's other conglomerates were doing the same.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

SK Group is one of South Korea's chaebols - family-owned conglomerates that dominate the country's economy.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

The Grecian orders were not only absurdly jumbled together, but yet more outrageously conglomerated with the Gothic and Arabesque.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 483, April 2, 1831 by Various

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 William Charles Henry Wood


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