1.   The company merger will take place as soon as practicable.

2.   The merger has taken place within the last six months.

3.   And, even when mergers take place, they often stumble over combining routes, computer systems and cultures.

4.   Both banks will unveil the share price at which the merger will take place and at which the share swap is to occur, Richard said.

5.   After the merger took effect, Brown served as chairman of Nationsbank for a year, although McColl remained chief executive.

6.   Burroughs Managing Director H.R. Khusrokan said on his appointment last year a merger would take place eventually.

7.   But the merger takes this strategy to a level most European companies have only begun to think about.

8.   But what happens to the market as a whole when mergers take place?

9.   Dassault Chairman Serge Dassault is adamant the companies should retain their separate identities, and has said Aerospatiale should first be privatized before the merger takes place.

10.   Culinary Academy chief executive Keith Keogh said the New Orleans expansion will continue, as planned, once the merger takes place.