This has put great pressure on utilities to find merger partners so that they can increase the size of their service areas and cut costs.

Kansas Gas has said it is talking with other potential merger partners.

That would make the company more attractive to potential merger partners.

Pan Am will continue to search for a merger partner.

But to get the price up, they have to look for a merger partner.

Its board would be split evenly between the merger partners.

German analysts see a good chance that the bank is looking for a merger partner.

The need to spend more on research is one reason that many drug companies are now searching for merger partners.

He referred to the remaining major oil companies that had not found merger partners.

A willing merger partner had been sought for two months but could not be found.