Talk:Conglomerate (company)

message: "Most conglomerates have generally proven unsuccessful". For example? - Jerryseinfeld 22:31, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Success

message: Removed
:"News International, owned by Rupert Murdoch, which owns the BSkyB satellite network in the UK, as well as the daily newspapers The Sun and The Times. Articles in Private Eye have highlighted articles in these newspapers that are ostensibly objective news coverage, but which contain subtle advertisements for Sky. In this way, leveraging assets across the conglomerate results in cheaper and less obvious advertising."
I think such a statement needs to cite specific articles. I regularly read The Times as well as other papers and all BSkyB related articles do seem to be "objective news coverage". Please remember BSkyB is a consituent of the FTSE 100 index and regularly features on the business pages of most British newspapers, many of which would rather go bust than give Rupert Murdoch free advertising. Mark83 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  BSkyB/News International 

message: This section seems to have been altered by the same person as the syndicate article (See below), same language inserted about the "L.A.R.V.A" syndicate, supposedly on of a list of 11 other secret syndicates. No citations or supporting evidence. Been floating around since December as well.
"L.A.R.V.A. Conglomerate Syndicate involved one major corporation acquiring several smaller online businesses with the goal of forming five stable corporations." Other articles include a list of names Like Angel, Congratia etc. Pulling the edit in the hopes of keeping this article from sliding even LOWER than a C grade.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.78.110.100 (talk) 19:56, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet conglomerates 

message: Good day. Mitsubishi is mentioned as a Japanese conglomerate, and while conglomerates in Japan still exist in the form of the trading companies ("Sogo-shosha"), Mitsubishi in its current form consists of several completely different publicy traded entities. Pre-WWII, Mitsubishi, along with Mitsui, Sumitomo, and others was a true conglomerate. Please see the entry for "Zaibatsu". I will leave this comment for 3 days and if there are no objections, will edit the article to provide greater specificity on conglomerates in Japan  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.102.77.208 (talk) 13:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mitsubishi 

message: "The Dutch East India Company is considered to be one of the earliest conglomerate groups after the British East India Company (the first)..."
This seem's a strange way of wording things...
Why not start with the British East India Company as the first?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.137.147.158 (talk) 15:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History first sentence 

message: "Synergies are illusory." - not only does this not have any references, but the internal link it provides does not prove that they are illusory. I'm no business genius - was just reading up on this topic - but this entire article needs a redo. It sounds so bias. Probably written by a high-up employee of a conglomerate. Don't know how to sign off either, so - Anonymous, 16:33, 09/02/2011 (GMT+10)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.170.90.3 (talk) 05:34, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Disadvantages

message: How do you pronounce this word?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:7388:9400:E5F3:54C0:2291:C2D8 (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed - -how do you pronounce this word 

message: The current title is misleading. The (company) at the title makes it sound like Conglomerate is a physical company. There needs to be a better disambiguator. Roostery123 (talk) 08:31, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better title