consortium - a combination of two or more large international companies, formed for a special and limited common purpose, such as to act as one in bargaining for a contract for very big building works, nuclear power stations, dams, etc.
On 1 January 1999, these two companies were sold to a consortium of equity investors and formed, together with a number of other Philips entities, a new company, called BC Components BV.
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