Which naturally raises the question: What took the famously acquisitive Singleton so long to diversify?
For years Wall Street had been downright hostile to the acquisitive ambitions of Chairman Whitacre.
Google's quietly pitter-pattering its acquisitive ways back into the controversial realm of facial recognition technology.
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The Edinburgh-based firm said the move would be used to pursue an acquisitive growth strategy.
Sir Martin Sorrell, the acquisitive 63-year-old chief executive of communications colossus WPP Group Plc.
In the West the price hike has doubled acquisitive crime and the prison population.
Should Meredith prove successful in continuing its acquisitive streak and do the proposed deal with Time Inc.
Coupled with this economic imperative is a willful desire for a simpler, more meaningful and less acquisitive lifestyle.
He now spends more than half his time on the road, trying to sell investors on his acquisitive strategy.
Even so, it seems acquisitive companies are less likely to get the cold shoulder when their deals are announced.
In early 2000 Matthews sold Newbridge to Alcatel, the acquisitive European telecom giant.
And they are being acquisitive with it to build their corporate presence abroad.
This week's merger between NationsBank, an acquisitive North Carolina institution, and BankAmerica, California's biggest bank, has changed all that.
Bank One and First Union, to take two empires built by voraciously acquisitive bosses, have found mergers rather indigestible.
L-3 is an acquisitive company and plans to maintain its strategy of purchasing other firms to expand its business.
Zurich, an equally acquisitive Swiss behemoth, saw its expense ratio soar in 1997.
At almost every turn Rogers is confronting his nemesis, BCE, the equally acquisitive Montreal-based holding company that owns Bell Canada.
The Gabelli group is focusing on a potential recapitalization of Monitronics or possibly another acquisition idea from the acquisitive Malone.
Were they to become acquisitive, he says, it is likely the company would focus on buying both talent and IP.
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In fact, acquisitive companies tend to suffer declining share prices in the near term and rising prices over the longer term.
Although they have not been quite so acquisitive, other governments in the region have been slow to sell existing state firms.
"One obvious problem would be that if people don't have money they would turn more to acquisitive crime, " Ms Willott said.
So who is keeping an eye on these increasingly acquisitive ambitions of the U.N.? And who is minding the books for its ever-expanding budgets?
All three have been acquisitive: In June, Constant Contact acquired SinglePlatform, a startup that helps local businesses enhance their online presence.
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Outsiders contend that Mr Moynihan's famously acquisitive predecessors, Hugh McColl and Mr Lewis, were far more interested in buying than integrating operations.
One of the most acquisitive companies of the last decade, Citi has been told by U.S. regulators to stay away from large deals.
Japan, which in the 1940s sent soldiers off to conquer oilfields in the then Dutch East Indies, took a notoriously more acquisitive bent.
He's still acquisitive, but the process is slow because he pores over the books of a dozen companies for every one he buys.
Sir Martin Sorrell, the acquisitive 63-year-old chief executive of communications colossus WPP Group (nyse: WPPGY - news - people ) Plc.
But its small debt might allow it to be an acquisitive one--it could be a buyer for the massively over-leveraged Hilton one day, for example.
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