The deal would close the gap considerably with industry leader Endeavor, itself formed from the merger of several talent agencies including William Morris and IMG. Only one "mini-major" talent agency

lost their jobs and thousands more were left with a gaping £570m hole in their pension fund. The tycoon, who had at the time just taken delivery of his second multi-million pound super-yacht, was put

HP closed the gap on rival Lenovo during 3Q 2016, bringing the two tech groups neck-and-neck in the global PC market, according to figures from IDC. Growth at HP lifted the US company's global share to

closing the gap with market leader Coca-Cola, which has 980k machines. Other companies, such as Asahi, Kirin and DyDo Drinco each have between 250k and 280k machines. Subscribe to Adbrands.net to

though Lenovo closed the gap slightly as a result of its newly minted joint venture with Fujitsu of Japan. Dell remains 3rd, while Apple showed the weakest year-on-year growth (of just 0.1%) in 4th place.

closing the gap with AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile has promised not to raise its prices for three years and to roll-out a national 5G service by 2022. Despite federal approval, though, the separate lawsuit

It continues to make smaller purchases to fill in gaps in its portfolio; for example of OTC pain relief cream and gel range BioFreeze in 2021. Yet the acquisition fever, and resulting waves of restructuring,

pressure from low price but stylish chain stores such as Gap and mass merchandisers led by Wal-Mart. Department stores, which were by far Claiborne's biggest customer base, were hardest hit and passed

closing the gap with Comcast's current footprint of 27m subscribers. Liberty would end up with a 25% voting stake in the enlarged business. The Newhouse family, owners of the Advance/Newhouse media empire

closing the gap with AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile has promised not to raise its prices for three years and to roll-out a national 5G service by 2022. Despite federal approval, though, the separate lawsuit