Stuart Elliott points out that it's pretty rare that a company acquires another, then changes its name to the brand or company it consumed. Examples show why it's a no-brainer: SBC Communications
bought AT&T and became AT&T; Chemical Bank grabbed Chase, and doffed Chemical; Allied Signal became Honeywell.
And now Unitrin, a Chicago-based insurance company with $2.7 billion in
revenue (which Elliott rightly suggests sounds like an analgesic) will become the Kemper Corporation, assuming the name of its Kemper division.
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