The oil industry was too large and many companies merged.

The Street would like to see the two companies merge.

The two companies recently merged at a cost of over 200 jobs.

Over 200 people lost their jobs when the two companies merged.

"Companies have merged or left town, and this has happened all over the country."

Better still, why don't the two companies simply merge and have done with it?

The two companies are merging in a $7.4 billion stock deal.

On his return journey in 1821 he learned that the two companies had merged.

It was formed in the 1950s, when two companies merged.

On November 5, 2009, it was reported that the companies will no longer be merging.