One wonders how many old-line companies now regret being drawn into the game.

Unisys is a merger of two old-line companies in an intensely competitive field.

Among these are drugs, consumer staples and old-line industrial companies.

That combination, the researchers suggest, has allowed old-line companies to escape much of the scrutiny.

One of the last of the old-line companies, a chair manufacturer, pulled out earlier this year.

Others are considering strategies, such as granting restricted stock, that have until now been limited to old-line companies with sagging share prices.

Chief information officers of old-line companies are now the ones in control.

By contrast, the old-line companies tended to be in big cities far from the cattle range.

Much of the credit goes to old-line German companies like the printing press manufacturer named for this ancient university town.

The old-line companies turn up their noses at the low-end producers.