1.   He wanted to merge his company with a South African mining firm.

2.   And he announced his intention to merge the company with Teledesic.

3.   Analysts chalked up the stock price drop to some concerns over merging the companies.

4.   And General Electric chairman John F. Welch Jr. has approached Turner about merging his company with NBC.

5.   And like a lot of other Silicon Alley executives, he said, he is open to merging his company with another.

6.   Besides settling on a corporate name, merging companies have a myriad of other marketing decisions to make, including which products to market under which names.

7.   But McKenna said Friday that Amelio believes that he could right what was wrong with Apple and was in no hurry to merge the company out of existence.

8.   But the study found that in a significant number of cases merging companies made only token attempts to satisfy the concerns of regulators.

9.   But with it comes the caveat that they must meet the challenge of merging two companies with business operations that cover a broad spectrum.

10.   Four years later, Lay and Donald M. Kendall, president of Pepsi-Cola, merged his company with Frito-Lay to form PepsiCo.