Top 10 Business Mergers and Acquisitions of All Time

For this list, we're focusing on M&A deals where buying parties acquired prominent subsidiaries that helped them enter into a new market and consolidate a leadership position.

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[lemondude]

Best merger: Blockbuster and Bankruptcy

[KegOfMeat]

WWF + WCW = WWF/WWE. Both of these companies where hugely popular in the late 1990s. They dominated Monday Nights and pulled higher rankings than Monday Night Football.

[JM-hmpj]

I just noticed that watch mojo almost has 10 million subscribers

[jonathanmalcorps]

Those clash of kings adverts are giving me Herpes

[trevonpernell]

Interesting to see Citigroup on this list considering the fact that they are also on WatchMojo's top 10 list of disastrous mergers & acquisitions.

[williamoreilly]

I was wathing them when they only had subscribers, now there almost at congratulations!

[kaddogscott]

How in the WORLD did you not do Disney and Pixar?!?!!!!

[MrSaLVideos]

"Expansion is the greatest strategic option for the survival of any company"-Basit Saliu.

[xxFinnandSamxx]

Obvi the Dunder Mifflen Scranton/Stanford merger

[hslee]

I am surprised not to see Lucky+Goldstar to make LG

[fulkthered]

Apple's acquisition of Next.Brought Steve Jobs back to Apple and the rest is history.

[EbolaGW]

In the topic of company mergers, how about making a top 10 video game company mergers?

[IamKryptonite]

NeXT being acquired by Apple belongs on this list.

[gtsuiwu]

Can you have the list in the description just for the busy people?

[newbers]

I’m waitin for a clip about the DunderMifflin/Sabre merger.

[izayoi]

In 20 years we are going to have so many legal monopolies.

[DavidL]

shows you how rich Rockefeller was when 3 of the top 10 biggest mergers of all time.. involved companies that were once a small part of his company

[nathanpreece]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't some of these technically 'acquisitions' rather than 'mergers'?

[kennymacdaddy]

...Allied Signals purchase of Honeywell Inc.
(It started off as Airesearch, then became Garrett, then became Allied Signal, then became Honeywell).

[khaluu]

You forgot to mention that AT&T also bought out cingular wireless