1.   He became deputy chairman of the merged business.

2.   The exercised shares, however, were then placed in a new performance plan created for the merged businesses.

3.   The merged generic businesses now trade as Evans-Kerfoot, with main manufacturing facilities at Bardsey Vale in Stockport.

4.   One such opportunity is that alliances can use the resources of their merged businesses to create new operations.

5.   The merged business will be run from New York and will create one brand name for Lazard to market around the world, the company said.

6.   Chan and a PricewaterhouseCoopers spokeswoman both said they could not provide revenue figures for the merged business.

7.   CMG Asia expected to extract cost savings from the merged business, particularly across its existing pensions administration business in Hong Kong.

8.   That deal gave the merged business two networks, CBS and the fledgling UPN network, which Viacom owns.

9.   The merged business could use its weight to keep other content off its cable systems, Internet services and new entertainment offerings like two-way interactive TV, he said.

10.   They will call the merged business Concert, named after a joint venture begun three years ago when British Telecom bought a stake in MCI.