merger-mania

merger-mania

A sudden or intense surge of companies forming corporate mergers with one another There has been something of a merger-mania in the telecommunications industry recently, with some analysts worrying about the possibility of de factor monopolies coming back into power as a result. This merger-mania between health-insurance providers over the last few months will only serve to lower costs for everyone except the people paying for their policies.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

merger-mania

n. an apparent need for companies to merge with one another. (Securities markets and journalism.) The market meltdown put an end to merger-mania.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • get a wild hair to (do something)
  • have a wild hair to (do something)
  • form (something) out of (something)
  • form out of
  • have a (sudden) rush of blood to the head
  • have a rush of blood to the head
  • sudden
  • a (sudden) rush of blood (to the head)
  • a rush of blood
  • form an opinion
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Primarily it's because of merger-mania. Catholics for a Free Choice reports that since 1995, 105 mergers have occurred between Catholic and public or non-sectarian private hospitals nationwide, In at least half of those cases, reproductive health services were either dropped entirely or severely limited.
BAD MEDICINE: when Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals merge, women's health care services often get excommunicated
Now that merger-mania has settled over the home building business, it is fascinating to look at who's buying whom.
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"Given all the strength and vitality we have today we are not disturbed in the slightest by the merger-mania to be seen almost everywhere with major car makers.
Porsche expects sales to speed up in slowdown
Keynote speaker Gregory Berg, of Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, described today's changes in the commercial insurance market brought about by "merger-mania" among brokers and insurers, capital markets investing heavily in insurance companies, and new products and combinations of service providers, such as banks selling insurance and other financial services and administrative services.
NLC-RISC Workshop Focuses on Changing Insurance Market
At the height of the industry's merger-mania in 1996, he engineered what was then PanEnergy's acquisition by Duke Energy.
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