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Company Mergers
1. The question is often asked why one huge company
should want to take over another massive organisation
just for the sake of or overthrowing a business rival.

tipping
tapping
topping
toppling
2. The winner may well have plenty of resources and
at its disposal to carry out the take over but there
has to be another reason.

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platforms
supports
floors
3. It may well have the market share in that area
with no opposition from any other competitor.

leading
directing
driving
guiding
4. In that case why should it want to carry out its plan and
do the thereby inheriting all the problems that the
other company has experienced?

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action

deal
process
5. It is possible that it has had a good year and at the end
of the financial year it has produced an excellent of
results that has pleased its shareholders.

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packet
crowd
set
6. Another reason of course is that it just wanted to do
what the shareholders wanted by to their wishes.

pandering
pleasing
placating
promoting
7. In that case it won't necessarily increase its profits or
its reputation in the business world.

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bolster
boot
barter
8. It may indeed suffer an initial in business and
profits may be substantially reduced.

download
downfall
downpour

downturn
9. Any company on reflection should think seriously before
splashing and spending huge sums of money.

out
off
over
in
10. The reality is that any company bent on a takeover
should be wary of losing business and clients because
there may well be a mass of customers.

expulsion
exile
exodus
explosion