Welcome To Canton, South Dakota. Imagine the ideal American city..... It would be a people-focused community, endowed with abundant natural beauty, a relaxing river and extensive recreational opportunities. Its climate would be temperate, yet seasonal.
Look up amalgamate or amalgamation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form. Amalgamation, amalgam, and other derivatives may refer to: Amalgam (chemistry), the combination of mercury with another metal Patio process, the use of mercury amalgamation to extract silver.
From a legal point of view, a merger is a legal consolidation of two companies into one entity, whereas an acquisition occurs when one company takes over another and completely establishes itself as the new owner (in which case the target company still exists as an independent legal entity controlled by the acquirer).