#Corporate-Consolidation
Events indexed under #Corporate-Consolidation — 22 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households
3 src nexstar-media-group · tegna · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition
5 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
3 src Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
3 src CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion
3 src Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-01 | Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding
3 src Academi · Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings · Blackwater | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-27 | Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL
3 src Oracle · Sun Microsystems · Larry Ellison · European Commission | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger
3 src Department of Justice · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 1984-10-30 | Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled
3 src Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission · Cable industry | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics
3 src Electric Boat · General Dynamics Corporation · John Jay Hopkins · U.S. Navy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape
3 src William Paley · Columbia Phonograph Company · Arthur Judson · Paramount Pictures | confirmed | |
| 1922-01-01 | Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion
3 src Samuel Insull · J.P. Morgan · Van Sweringen Brothers · Delaware Corporation Commission | confirmed | |
| 1921-09-15 | DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control
3 src Pierre du Pont · Alfred P. Sloan · John J. Raskob · DuPont Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-10 | Carnegie Sells to J.P. Morgan: U.S. Steel Becomes First Billion-Dollar Corporation
3 src Andrew Carnegie · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Steel Corporation · Carnegie Steel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1901-02-26 | U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust
3 src J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · Elbert Gary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1901-02-25 | U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History
4 src J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1887-10-27 | Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining
3 src Henry Osborne Havemeyer · Sugar Refineries Company · American Sugar Refining Company | confirmed | |
| 1885-07-01 | J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion
3 src J.P. Morgan · New York Central Railroad · Pennsylvania Railroad · Railroad Executives | confirmed |