Royal Wedding Gallery: The biggest UK/US tie-ups before Harry and Meghan get hitched

Most famous Transatlantic unions

Laura Dew
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It is the wedding of the year - but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's nuptials are not the only UK-US unions to have made headlines (for better or worse) in recent times.

It is the wedding of the year - but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's nuptials are not the only UK-US union to have made headlines (for better or worse) in recent times. The business world has seen its fair share of mergers and acquisitions between British and American companies, with supermarket giants Sainsbury's and Asda (the latter owned by US conglomerate Walmart) the latest example. To commemorate the Royal Wedding, Investment Week looks at five high-profile Transatlantic tie-ups. 

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