FW: Merger Mania (Very little Audi Content)

["Dupree, Jim" <dupree@alldata.com>]

Well I'll probable get blasted for the low Audi content but ...


> Subject:	Merger Mania
> 
> A number of years ago there was a proposed merger between Fairchild
> Electronics and Honeywell Computers. Rumor had it that the new
> company would be called Fairwell Honeychild.
>  
> There is a merger in the works involving Polygraph Records, Warner
> Brothers, and Keebler. It will be called Poly-Warner-Cracker.
> 
> There has long been a rumor that W. R. Grace Co. was going to buy the
> Fuller Brush Co. and Mary Kay Cosmetics and then merge with the Hale
> Business Systems. This would result in the new mega-corporation Hale
> Mary Fuller Grace.
> 
> Don't forget the failed merger between Yahoo and Netscape:
> Net'n'Yahoo.  It didn't work out because they were afraid they would
> have to relocate the headquarters to Tel Aviv.
>  
> Others in the works:
> 
> 3M & Goodyear = mmmGood
>  
>  John Deere & Abitibi-Price = Deere Abi
> 
> Honeywell & Imasco & Home Oil = Honey, I'm Home
> 
> Denison Mines & Alliance & Metal Mining = Mine, All Mine
>  
> 3M & JC Penney & Canadian Opera Company = 3 Penney Opera
>  
> Grey Poupon + Dockers Pants = Poupon Pants
>  
> Knott's Berry Farm + National Organization of Women = Knott NOW
>  
> Crabtree & Evelyn and Apple Computer = Crab Apple
> 
> Swissair & Cheseborough-Ponds = Swisscheese
>  
> Zippo Manufacturing & Audi & Dofasco & Dakota Mining = Zip Audi Do Da