After all, Pantan is but one member of a conglomerate of security firms called Oskord.

GE Aviation is part of the General Electric conglomerate, which is one of the world's largest corporations.

Critics accuse Thaksin of conflicts of interest, as his family owned telecommunications conglomerate holds sizeable investments in Myanmar.

As Mitsubishi built a broadly based conglomerate, it played a central role in the modernization of Japanese industry.

The three companies, jointly owned since 1922, were merged to form a new industrial conglomerate, Nokia Corporation, in 1967.

Within Africa, the South African conglomerate Eskom has contracted to run the Tanzania Electric Supply Company and the main power station in Zimbabwe.

Mittal, by contrast, is a conglomerate that has come out of nowhere to become the world s leading steel company in a mere two decades.

Charoen Pokphand, a domestic conglomerate that formerly focused on agribusiness, has expanded its business internationally with investments to such countries as China and Indonesia.

Saha Union Group, a conglomerate of 58 companies focusing on textile products, and Mitrphol Sugar, which deals in sugar products, have activities in China.

Clio Awards The Clio Awards program, which is based in New York USA, is operated by Nielsen, the Dutch media conglomerate formerly known as VNU.

The Talaat Mustafa Group (TMG), a huge real estate conglomerate through which Mustafa made his billions, doesn't want any stockholders to worry just because the company's founder and namesake is under a death sentence.

Anatoly Chubais, the father of Russian privatization in the 1990 s and the current head of the country s nano technology conglomerate RosNano, recently admitted that the prospects for political modernization in Russia are dim. Today, he said, no demand for it exists.

That day, international mainstream media reported on Goldman Sachs being hired by the Spanish government to evaluate banking conglomerate Bankia, taken over by the state earlier in May, and also about rumors of a referendum in Greece to ballot the membership in the Eurozone.

As it stands, the Silk Road Fund is unilateral, placing it in the same category as the China Development Bank and the state owned investment conglomerate CITIC. But the Chinese authorities have said that it is open for others to join, though that seems unlikely, given the scale of the Chinese commitment.