amalgamation of companies

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• amalgamation — a‧mal‧ga‧ma‧tion [əˌmælgəˈmeɪʆn] noun [countable, uncountable] when two or more organizations amalgamate, often in order to increase profits by cutting costs: • the amalgamation of the regional sales operations into one national salesforce •… …   Financial and business terms

• Amalgamation — Amalgamation, meaning to combine or unite into one form, has several uses:* Amalgamation (mining), the process of separation of precious metals from ore. * Amalgamation (history), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of… …   Wikipedia

• Amalgamation — The combination of one or more companies into a new entity. An amalgamation is distinct from a merger because neither of the combining companies survives as a legal entity. Rather, a completely new entity is formed to house the combined assets… …   Investment dictionary

• amalgamation — The combination of two or more companies. The combination may be effected by one company acquiring others, by the merging of two or more companies, or by existing companies being dissolved and a new company formed to take over the combined… …   Accounting dictionary

• amalgamation — The combination of two or more companies. The combination may be effected by one company acquiring others, by the merging of two or more companies, or by existing companies being dissolved and a new company formed to take over the combined… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• amalgamation — /əmælgəˈmeɪʃən/ (say uhmalguh mayshuhn) noun 1. the act of amalgamating. 2. the resulting state. 3. Commerce a merger of two or more companies. 4. Ethnology the biological fusion of diverse racial stocks. 5. Metallurgy the extraction of the… …  

• amalgamation — noun the combination of two or more commercial companies • Syn: ↑merger, ↑uniting • Derivationally related forms: ↑unite (for: ↑uniting), ↑merge (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• List of early British railway companies — The following list sets out to show all the railway companies set up by Acts of Parliament in the 19th century until the late 1850s. Most of them became constituent parts of the emerging main line railway companies, often immediately after being… …   Wikipedia

• List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping — Under the Railways Act 1921 the majority of the railway companies in Great Britain (and few in Northern Ireland) were grouped into four main companies, often termed the Big Four. The grouping took effect from 1 January 1923. The Big FourThe Big… …   Wikipedia

• List of companies named after people — This is a list of companies named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.#* 20th Century Fox – William FoxA* A M Records – Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss * A W Restaurants – after Roy Allen and… …   Wikipedia

• Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway — The Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (BA P) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Buenos Aires al Pacífico) was one of the Big Four broad gauge, RailGauge|5ft6in|al=off|lk=on, British owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina.The… …   Wikipedia