conglomerateur , also: conglomerator

That resulted in diversification and the era of the conglomerateur.

His faults included a desire to be an international conglomerateur, and an underestimate of the engineering challenges involved in motorbike production.

Nortek acquired a reputation in the 1980's as a small-scale conglomerateur, buying and selling subsidiaries at a rapid pace.

If the conglomerateur's key concept was synergy, and the arbitrageur's was leverage, then the operateur's central motif is performance for price.

John Ignatius Quinn, commonly known as Seán Quinn, is an Irish businessman and conglomerateur.

In 1968, he joined the Aces, an all-star team of six players that had been organized a year or so earlier by Ira Corn, a Dallas conglomerateur.

Alexander, the son of Edward Alexander, a Toledo, Ohio, conglomerateur, shares with Tarnopol the cost of the team, which includes professional Ernesto Trotz, another Argentine 10-goaler.

Parlaying a fortune he had partly inherited and had partly earned as a conglomerateur, Black looked to England, where earlier this century two other Canadians, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson, had made their reputations in the newspaper business.

Mr. Bartolone, who was born in the Bronx, took his first step toward becoming a communications conglomerateur at Benton & Bowles, after graduating with a premed degree from Fordham University and serving in the Army Medical Corps during the Korean War.

As Mr. Davis's $10.7 billion hostile bid for Time showed last week, Paramount under Mr. Davis is certainly every bit the corporate shark that Gulf and Western was under Charles Bluhdorn, the legendary conglomerateur who led the company until his death in 1983.

Mr. Preston also gives us great set pieces - one on the way Mr. Iverson rescues the company in 1965 from a smooth-talking conglomerateur who prefers reading restaurant menus to production plans; another on the moment when the machine is turned on for the first time.