Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

The acquisition of MFS included UUNET Technologies, Inc., which had been acquired by MFS shortly before the merger with WorldCom.

The merger failed a vote in 1998, when Riverwood, Kentucky, which Indian Hills surrounds, was included.

Festivities on July 1, 1952, when the merger took effect, included a parade and speeches from such notables as Senator Estes Kefauver.

The company included an in-house airline, MyTravel Airways, however, following the merger of MyTravel and Thomas Cook AG on 19 June 2007, these brands passed to the new combined Thomas Cook Group plc.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's engine facilities included a roundhouse, decommissioned in 1968 in the aftermath of the merger between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad to form Penn Central.

There was some speculation that the Country Party would be included in the merger ( as had already happened in several states ), but Fadden was keen to assert the independence of his party.

The reasons for the merger between Nash and Hudson included helping cut costs and strengthen their sales organizations to meet the intense competition expected from autos ' Big Three.

On 1 January 1925, the State of Syria was born, from a French merger of the States of Damascus and Aleppo — not included were the Lebanon and the Alawi State.

Reasons for the merger included creating a bank better positioned to serve corporate clients and to fend off competition from major international banks.

The Wingfoots suspended operations for World War II and were not included in the NBL / BAA merger.

( The Virginia Squires were folded shortly after the conclusion of regular season play due to their inability to make good on a required league assessment, though it is unlikely they would have been included in any merger deal in any event.

Although widely recognized in most plant classifications ( notably the Cronquist system ), the APG system ( 1998 ) and the APG II system ( 2003 ) have included these plants in the family Amaranthaceae on the basis of evidence from molecular phylogenies: they are a paraphyletic group, so that for a monophyletic taxon, merger with Amaranthaceae sensu stricto was needed.

The party entered talks with the Labour Party about a possible merger, however these ended in failure as they could not agree on the focus of the party and whether Sinn Féin or the National Progressive Democrats could be included.

This included May's Marshall Field's ( purchased by the May Company from Target just eight months prior to Federated's purchase of the May Company ), Kaufmann's, Famous-Barr, Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, The Jones Store, L. S. Ayres, Meier & Frank, Robinsons-May, and Strawbridge & Clothier chains, pending approval of the merger by federal regulators.

Other merger discussions that Ashton-Tate's board rejected or reached an impasse on included Cullinet, Computer Associates, Informix, Symantec and Microsoft.

Also included in the merger were three other railroads:

In addition to Carroll, other leaders in the merger included S. A. Hayden, J.

In the same year the Amsterdamsche Bank which was established in 1871 merged with the Rotterdamsche Bank which was established in 1873 ( as part of merger that included Determeijer Weslingh & Zn.

Two years earlier, Trump sold most of his fellow owners on a move to the fall by arguing that it would eventually force a merger with the NFL -- in which the owners of any USFL teams included in a merger would see their investment more than double.

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989 ČSL attempted to shed its compromised figures and policies of the past: this included a change of name in 1992 after the merger with the Christian Democratic Union movement ( which was a post-revolution attempt at more modern political Catholicism trying to emulate the German CDU, but lacking the strength of its traditional counterpart ).

Almost immediately, the road filed with the ICC to be included in the Union Pacific merger with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

The Bakelite Corporation was formed in 1922 ( after patent litigation favorable to Baekeland ) from a merger of three companies: the General Bakelite Company which Baekeland founded in 1910, the Condensite Company, founded by J. W.

Similarly, corporations are often formed under Delaware corporate law, and contracts relating to corporate law issues ( merger and acquisitions of companies, rights of shareholders, and so on.

The Ocean Spray cooperative was established in 1930 through a merger of three primary processing companies: Ocean Spray Preserving company, Makepeace Preserving Co, and Cranberry Products Co.

Analysts on Wall Street were generally critical of the merger, as both companies had been struggling before the announcement, and the stock prices of both companies dropped in the months after the merger agreement was made public.

Formation by merger is available only to public limited companies from different Member States.

# By merger of national companies from different member states

Because conflicts between these companies had frequently led to support for rival groups in Honduran politics, had produced a border controversy with Guatemala, and may have even contributed to revolutionary disturbances, this merger seemed to promise greater domestic tranquility.

The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.

Carl is the spelling variant he used for one company, C. Benz Söhne, he formed with his son Eugen after leaving the active management of his long standing company, but remaining on its board of directors for the rest of his life ( through its merger with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in which the two companies became Daimler-Benz ), and it is used for his autobiography by a recent publisher.

A purchase deal will also be called a " merger " when both CEOs agree that joining together is in the best interest of both of their companies.

-A horizontal merger is usually between two companies in the same business sector.

-Conglomerate M & A is the third form of M & A process which deals the merger between two irrelevant companies.

In addition, technological changes prior to the merger movement within companies increased the efficient size of plants with capital intensive assembly lines allowing for economies of scale.

The new firm was established through the merger of five Somali companies from the trade, finance, security and telecommunications sectors.

* 1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

A merger between Square and its competitor Enix was in consideration since at least 2000 ; however, the financial failure of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within made Enix hesitant to join with a company which was losing money, and the merge was delayed until April 1, 2003, when the two companies finally merged to form Square Enix.

TeliaSonera is the result of a 2002 merger between the Swedish and Finnish telecommunications companies, Telia and Sonera.

On Saturday, 11 November 2006, White Wolf and CCP Games, the Icelandic MMO development company responsible for EVE Online, announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the EVE Online Fanfest 2006.

** Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom ( the largest merger in U. S. history ).

* As a result of the merger of several small oil companies, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controls 84 % of the USA's oil and most American pipelines.

* December 25 – IG Farben formed by merger of six chemical companies in Germany.