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A conglomerate is a corporation that is made up of a number of different, seemingly unrelated businesses. In a conglomerate, one company owns a controlling stake in a number of smaller companies, which conduct business separately.
1 Conglomerate M&A is the third form of M&A process which deals the merger between two irrelevant companies. 2  The example of conglomerate M&A with relevance to above scenario would be if health care system buys a restaurant chain. 3  The objective may be diversification of capital investment.