1999 mergers and acquisitions

former American web traffic analysis company

automotive brand manufacturing subsidiary of Geely

brand and romanian car manufacturer from Renault

American video game publisher

Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was once dominant but lost to Internet Explorer and other competitors in the first browser war, with its market share falling from more than 90 percent in the mid-1990s to less than one percent in 2006. An early Netscape employee, Brendan Eich, created the JavaScript programming language, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages. A f

Swiss luxury manufacturer

British video game developer

international publishing company

Aérospatiale () was a French state-owned aerospace and defence corporation. It was founded in 1970 as Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale () through the merger of three state-owned aerospace firms: Nord Aviation, SEREB, and Sud Aviation.

American private security guard and detective agency

thumb|A bust of co-founder Peter Asquith outside Asda House in Leeds Asda Stores Limited (), trading as Asda and stylised as ASDA, is a British supermarket and petrol station chain. Its headquarters is located in Leeds, England. The company was incorporated as Associated Dairies and Farm Stores in 1949. It expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI. It sold these acquisitions during the 1990s to concentrate on the supermarkets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 1999 when

German company

American publisher of games

American company

KraussMaffei is a German manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of injection molding machines, machines for plastics extrusion technology, and reaction process machinery. It was acquired by ChemChina in 2016.

Canadian football team based in Toronto, Canada

British film and television production company

former American oil company

women's clothing fashion brand

Zip2 Corp. was a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. The company was founded in Palo Alto, California, as Global Link Information Network, Inc. on November 9, 1995, by Greg Kouri and brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk. Initially, Global Link provided local businesses with an Internet presence, but later began to assist newspapers in designing online city guides before being purchased by Compaq Computer in 1999.

Swiss luxury watchmaker

American-Swedish clothing brand

GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites free of charge, and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities. On January 28, 1999, it was acquired by Yahoo!, at which time it was reportedly the third-most-visited website on the World Wide Web.

Austrian video game developer

rugby union club of England

American video game developer and publisher

American video game developer

fast food restaurant chain

Nullsoft, Inc. was an American software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by programmer Justin Frankel. Its products included the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server.

Rhône-Poulenc () was a French chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in 1928. In 1999, it merged with Hoechst AG to form Aventis. As of 2015, the pharmaceutical operations of Rhône-Poulenc are part of Sanofi and the chemicals divisions are part of Solvay group and Bayer Crop Science.

Neversoft Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Woodland Hills, California. The studio was founded by Joel Jewett, Mick West and Chris Ward in July 1994 and was acquired by Activision in October 1999. Initially, the studio worked with Playmates Toys, where they worked on the game Skeleton Warriors (1996), which was based on an animated television series of the same name. Throughout 1996, the studio grew, and worked on projects with Crystal Dynamics and Sony Computer Entertainment, but due to internal conflicts, they were cancelled.

American typesetting and typeface design company

steelmaking enterprise in the United Kingdom

American computer company

American subsidiary and publishing arm of Atari SA

Italian telecommunications company

AlliedSignal was an American aerospace, automotive and engineering company, created through the 1985 merger of Allied Corp. and The Signal Companies. It purchased Honeywell for $14.8 billion in 1999, and adopted the Honeywell name and identity.

150px|thumb|Asatsu-DK's previous logo (2002–2014) d/b/a ADK, formerly known as Asatsu-DK, is a Japanese advertising agency. Headquartered in the Toranomon Hills building complex in Minato, Tokyo since June 2014 (previously in Tsukiji, Chūō, Tokyo), the firm is Japan's third largest advertising agency after Dentsu and Hakuhodo. The agency has 80 offices in over 20 countries. One, Asatsu-DK Europe, was established in 1993 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bain Capital owned the company between 2018 and 2025, when it was sold to South Korean video game developer Krafton.

weight loss products and services company

American record label

defence arm of the defunct General Electric Company (1897-1999)

American producer of hybrid seeds for agriculture

Romanian bank

British fragrance brand

thumb|Fina logo on the company's former head office in Brussels thumb|right|A Fina petrol station in Trondheim, [[Norway in 1998.]] thumb|right|A closed Fina petrol station in Florida, US. Petrofina was a Belgian oil company. It merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total. In the United States, Fina's former refining and marketing operations are now owned by Delek US.

upper-midscale hotel chain run by Hilton Worldwide Holdings

Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., part of Somnigroup International (formerly Tempur Sealy International), is a manufacturer and distributor of mattresses and pillows made from viscoelastic foam. The company is headquartered on the Coldstream Research Campus in Lexington, Kentucky, and has manufacturing plants in Duffield, Virginia; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Tazo Tea Company (TAZO) is a tea and herbal tea blender and distributor founded in Portland, Oregon. It is now a Lipton Teas and Infusions division and is based in Kent, Washington.

British video game developer

American educational software company

American bakery and cafe chain

British food manufacturer

American private holding company

British bathroom & plumbing manufacturer

Danzas was an international transport company with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Founded in 1806 in Saint-Louis (Alsace) and named after Louis Danzas (1788–1862) when he took over the company in 1840, the firm became a major player in international freight and logistics until its acquisition by Deutsche Post in 1999 (now known as DHL Global Forwarding).

Safmarine, short for South African Marine Corporation, and latterly South African Marine Container Lines, was a South African shipping line, established in 1946, which offered freight transport services with cargo liners and container ships. It was bought by Maersk Line in 1999, and was fully integrated into that company in 2020. It also operated passenger vessels and specialised cargo ships.

defunct computer hardware company

is a Japanese publisher. It was established in 1886, under the name . In 1999, it was acquired by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, and its name was subsequently changed.

all-suite hotel chain

bank in Boston, Massachusetts, US which was acquired by Bank of America