Manufacturing and industry

Air defense oligopoly

BAE buys UDI

BASF buys Degussa

BASF profile

Bayer chemicals

Barrick Gold buys Placer Dome

Big Five gasoline squeeze

Big Paint

Boeing scandal    more

Boise Cascade sells out

Boise Cascade/Office Max

BP/Tyumen Oil

Cement

Cement in China

Chemical price-fixing

Coating industry

CVRD and the iron oligopoly

Danaher buys Tektronix

Danish utilities

Electric utility mergers reday

Elevator oligopoly

E.On and Midlands Electricity

European defense mergers looming

Evraz/Highveld

Flavor and fragrance oligopoly

Forest products industry

General Dynamics profile

General Dynamics/Veridian

General Electric acquisitions  

      2004 acquisitions

      2005 acquisitions

       2006 acquistions

General Electric and the security industry

General Electric buys Vetco Gray

General Electric buys Smiths Industries

General Electric sells plastics business to Sabic

General Electric's dilemma

Gold mining

International Paper sells some manufacturing assets

International Paper sells timberlands

Koch Industries buys Georgia Pacific

Lockheed Martin/Sytex

Lockheed Martin/Titan

Helicopter industry

International Paper/Boxco

International Power PLC acquisition

Kerr-McGee buys Westport

L-3: a defense giant

Linde buys BOC Group to build gas empire

Mining consolidation

Monsanto

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman/Integic

Oil equipment merger

Packaging oligopoly

Peabody coal acquistion

Printing industry

Rexal buys Hagemeyer

Russian oil   2 

Russian oligopolies   more

Russian steel in Detroit

Saint Gobain buys BPB

Satellite merger    Follow-up

Singapore Power/TXU Australia

Sonepar (electrical supplies)

Tyco split-up

United Technologies

United Technologies buys security company IESG

US Steel deals 2007

Veolia expands

Water supply oligopoly

Water supply industry

Whirlpool/Maytag

Xerox buys dealer chain