Cousins to the gladiola, these are hardy plants that produce clumps of green sword-shaped leaves, with tall, arching spikes of funnel-shaped blossoms appearing in mid to late summer.
The 10 biggest U.S. electric utilities visualized. Duke Energy's merger with Progress Energy, completed in July 2012, created the largest electric utility in the United States. In fact, two of the three largest U.S. utilities are the result of recent mergers. Exelon, third on the list of the 10 biggest U.S. utilities, merged with Constellation Energy in March 2012. Duke will now service 7 million retail customers across six states.
1 Lawley is the 54th* largest U.S. broker and headquartered in Buffalo, New York. 2  Heffernan Insurance Brokers acquired Pilot Employee Benefits in Long Island, New York. 3  Heffernan is the 35th* largest U.S. broker and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.RC Insurance Services, a wholesale insurance subsidiary of BB&T Insurance, also agreed to acquire NAPCO. Based in Iselin, New Jersey, NAPCO is a wholesale broker of commercial property catastrophe insurance coverage.