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- noun Plural form of
conglomerateur .
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Examples
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Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own capital.
Get Briefed: John Bogle Chris Barth 2011
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Of course, devotees of the Web and its "new" media -- YouTube, blogs and websites -- often disdain newspapers and traditional media as entities which are populated by elitists, propagandists or sell-outs to mercantilist interests or media conglomerateurs.
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In the '60s, America went through a merger boom fueled by conglomerateurs like Charlie Bludhorn of Gulf + Western and Harold Geneen of ITT, who believed that companies in completely different businesses - movie studios, oil refineries, car rental agencies, and so on - could be managed efficiently under the umbrella of a single parent organization.
Eric J. Weiner: American Book Publishing's Synergy Trap 2008
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The worst press has been reserved for comic-strip conglomerateurs: Harold Geneen, for example, with his traveling trunks of data.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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CFOs are all the rage these days, the targets of advertisers, the darlings of analysts, beneficiaries of the kind of mild celebrity beyond the confines of their industry that was reserved in the ’70s for strategic planners or for “conglomerateurs” in the late 1960s.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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