Alfdex, which is a joint venture owned by Alfa Laval and Haldex, provide the global truck and diesel engine market with its products and is for the moment market leader. The future demand will however exceed their current capacity within five years. To avoid that any decision will be made ad hoc this project will [...]
Everyone in business is selling something to someone, at least part of the time. The only difference: Some sell bigger and more publicly than the rest of us.
The Big Sell, at the moment, is a full-time job for Kraft Foods’ CEO Irene Rosenfeld, who in late August made an unsolicited $16.7 billion bid to take [...]
The biggest challenge in creating value from cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in rapidly developing economies (RDEs) is not extracting synergies, but understanding the full spectrum of risks before the deal is closed. Based on a survey of executives with extensive experience in M&A in RDEs, this focus highlights the four main drivers of these [...]
Successful businesses know when and how to adapt and change. This involves growing some areas of activity and cutting back on less profitable areas. Companies can often benefit from acquiring businesses operating in overseas markets. For example in Europe, the USA or the Far East, the availability of new customers or cheaper costs of employing [...]
A case study from the Institute of Management, Chennai annual B-School event. The case deals with the decision making of whether to go for the merger and acquisition and evaluating the different parameters before taking a decision…click here to read the case
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The focus of any acquisition is a clear identification of specific technology or product needs as determined in their strategic matrix. So, Cisco knows why it is doing what it is doing; it is not doing deals just for the sake of making investment bankers money…click here to read ahead
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Mergers and acquisitions have become the most frequently used methods of growth for companies in the twenty first century. They present a company with a potentially larger market share and open it up to a more diversified market. A merger is considered to be successful, if it increases the acquiring firm’s value; most mergers have [...]
This Fortune 500 defense contractor’s business had grown over time through four acquisitions. Having disparate programs was preventing a holistic total rewards system. And this was impeding talent migration as well as creating inefficiencies in reward spend and administration.
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a company was looking to expand its market share globally via the acquisition of another well-branded company. A successful acquisition would propel it into the number one position in its industry. Several factors complicated the
potential acquisition.
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