21.   Consolidation can only improve the profit picture, as merged companies close older plants and eliminate administrators.

22.   Construction companies are also closing their doors, making up one-third of all corporate bankruptcies this year.

23.   Earlier this year, he said the company would close plants, cut its payroll and meet production requirements.

24.   During the third quarter the company closed its acquisition of Gulf Canada and took several special charges against earnings related to that deal.

25.   Even though times were good, companies were furiously closing plants, installing equipment to replace workers and pursuing mergers to cut costs.

26.   Exports have fallen, companies are closing, prices are rising, and growing numbers of people are losing jobs.

27.   He also said the company had closed its discretionary trading account.

28.   He knows of the head of a startup dot-com in New York who bought a new Land Rover every time the company closed on a round of financing.

29.   He noted that the company had closed two other plants in recent months.

30.   I am told that the company closed its doors.