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Mergers The most common kind of consolidation today is the merger. 46 With the deregulation of natural gas, the nation’s
Mergers The most common kind of consolidation today is the merger. 46 With the deregulation of natural gas, the nation’s
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Mergers
The most common kind of consolidation today is the merger. 46
With the deregulation of natural gas, the nation’s 20 interstate pipeline companies became fearful of cutthroat competition. 47 In 1985 Internorth of Omaha paid $ 2. 3 billion for Houston Natural Gas Corporation, thereby gaining control of the world’s longest pipeline. The system connected markets from coast to coast and raised sales to $ 10 billion.
On occasion, mergers have occurred between smaller companies in an industry dominated by a few giant firms. These smaller companies claim that they need to merge to become more efficient and effective in competing against the biggest corporations. 48 The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department has not always agreed with them.
Four major waves of mergers have taken place in this country. The first started in 1887, just prior to the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ended in 1904. It involved such giants as United States Steel and Standard Oil trying to create monopolies in their industries. From the end of World War I until the 1930s, large firms swallowed smaller firms to create oligopolies. The monopoly has no chance and the oligopoly little chance of succeeding today under present antitrust policy.
The third major merger movement began in the 1960s, reached a peak in 1969, and then gradually declined. Many of the acquisitions involved giant firms in one industry buying up large companies in totally unrelated industries. Such mergers are called conglomerate mergers 49
Mergers in the last ten years were in the thousands. More important is the value of the transactions, which has risen sharply. The number of mergers and acquisitions apply only to those valued at $ 100 million or more. The petroleum industry had mergers and acquisitions valued at close to $80 billion between 1981 and 1984. 50
A Some felt that they could increase their efficiency and improve their market flexibility by merging.
B They maintain that such action increases competition instead of reducing it.
C Other industries experiencing large takeovers were banking and finance, insurance, mining and mineral, and processed foods.
D Fierce competition on the international market results in combinations of small firms.
E A classic example is Mobil Oil Corporation’s purchase of the huge retail chain Montgomery Ward & Company.
F A merger occurs when two or more companies get together to form one company.
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C
解析
本段介绍第四波合并潮,前一句说1981至1984年间,石油业的合并与兼并总价值近800亿美元,C告诉我们其他行业也出现过大型的合并与兼并,两句话意思连贯,other和industries在两句之间起了重要的衔接作用,前者属于普通比较式指称衔接,后者属于重复式词汇衔接。
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