Saturated formations and products of connected subgroups

For a non-empty class of groups C, two subgroups A and B of a group G are said to be C-connected if 〈a,b〉∈C for all a∈A and b∈B. Given two sets π and ρ of primes, SπSρ denotes the class of all finite soluble groups that are extensions of a normal π-subgroup by a ρ-group.It is shown that in a finite group G=AB, with A and B soluble subgroups, then A and B are SπSρ-connected if and only if Oρ(B) centralizes AOπ(G)/Oπ(G), Oρ(A) centralizes BOπ(G)/Oπ(G) and G∈Sπ∪ρ. Moreover, if in this situation A and B are in SπSρ, then G is in SπSρ.This result is then extended to a large family of saturated formations F, the so-called nilpotent-like Fitting formations of soluble groups, and to finite groups that are products of arbitrarily many pairwise permutable F-connected F-subgroups.