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...?Mergers & Acquisitions The potential Sprint-T-Mobile merger is one of most discussed topic in the US telecom industry. More than the merger between the two, the cause of concern is the future of T-Mobile which will have to merge with either of other service providers for survival. A short analysis of the potential merger form various perspectives have shown that it is far better for Sprint to operate individually than to merge with T-Mobile. But for T-Mobile, a merger with AT&T would make more sense than with Sprint. The prospective merger between T-Mobile and Sprint has evoked mixed opinions among the shareholders of both the companies. T-Mobile USA is a subsidiary of German based Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE). The intention of DTE... a...
5 Pages(1250 words)Term Paper
...with a competing firm or by acquiring the same. For an instance, consolidation among Mobil and Exxon would allow these companies to attain a large chunk of share in the oil and gas market. Vertical mergers and acquisitions happen when two organisations are merged through the value-chain, such as any manufacturer firm merging with one supplier or a manufacturer acquiring its supplier firm. Vertical consolidation processes are mostly used as significant mean to gain the competitive advantage in the respective marketplace by leveraging on the value chain. For an instance, Merck, a leading pharmaceuticals manufacturer, merged with the leading pharmaceuticals distributor,...
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...which indicated the inefficiency of the defence strategy employed by the managers of NatWest. To be mentioned, the objective of both the banks was to increase their future potential and competency. Despite, NatWest was observed to consider every available opportunity to prevent the acquisition. However, the managers of NatWest continuously refused the proposal still after the government approved the acquisition. The approval attracted many other potential acquirers in the industry which increased the aggressiveness of the situation. During this period, RBS offered a friendlier offer to NatWest which was again refused. Thus, the acquirer opted for a hostile bid and...
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... restructuring activities: an integrated approach to process, tools, cases, and solutions. Elsevier. UK. Robert, B. 2011. Applied merger and acquisition workbook. John Willey and sons. US. Sherman, A. J. and Hart, M. A. 2006. Mergers and Acquisitions From A to Z. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. Ullrich, S. and Piero, M. 2004. Managing Complex Mergers: Real World Lessons in Implementing Successful Cross-cultural Mergers and Acquisitions. Financial Times/Prentice Hall. US. Zabihollah, R. 2011. Financial Services Firms: Governance, Regulations, Valuations, Mergers, and Acquisitions. John Wiley and sons. US.... is situated in Luxembourg City (Kumar, 2012). 1. Strategy In recent years few industrial mergers has...
11 Pages(2750 words)Assignment
...of literature on business strategy is replete with references to alliances, acquisitions, mergers and takeovers with its variations like hostile takeovers. The objective of all these processes is to create a larger and financially more powerful company (Campbell, Stonehouse and Houston 2004, p. 215). Even at the global level M &As have increased in number and scale phenomenally since the 1990s. Businesses use them to consolidate in their search for scale economies, e.g. BP-Amoco; to increase their global reach and competitiveness e.g. Daimler-Benz; acquire competencies, or new technologies e.g., Sony-Columbia (Lasserre 2003, p. 134) and convergence of services (AOL-Time Warner).
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...in 1897 and ended in 1904. The merger had the greatest impact on eight specific industries i.e. primary metals, bituminous coal, food products, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum and fabricated metal products. These industries accounted for almost two - thirds of the total mergers during these periods.
The mergers in the first wave were predominantly horizontal combinations. These resulting industrial consolidations led to creation of large monopolies. For example, US steel founded by J P Morgan merged with Carnegie Steel founded by Andrew Carnegie. The merged firm US Steel also acquired...
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...Mergers and Acquisitions (a) In the proposed merger between Smith plc and Amanda plc, two options for issue of shares may be explored. The first is avaluation of the shares on the basis of current market price:
Total number of shares in issue = 1,864,000
Total share earnings = {165,000 + 239,000} = 404,000
Individual share earnings = 0.216 or 21.6 p
On this basis, if a price to earnings ratio of 8 is to be maintained, then each individual share price must be set at: (x/0.216 X 8) = 1.73 pounds
For Amanda plc shares, this would result in a lowering of the market price per share by (2.40-1.73) = 0.67 pence, while for Smith plc shareholders, the value of their stock rises by (1.73-1.03) =...
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...design capacity to 450,000 bpd. The project included a propylene plant.
This refinery was started in mid-1984. A joint venture between Petromin and Mobil emerged and was known as Pemref. Saudi Aramco controlled the stake 50% in 1993 after absorbing Samarec (All Business, 2005).
Saudi Aramco effectively took over Saudi Arabian Marketing & Refining Company (Samarec) by placing the senior staff and scarce resources in the merger.
The council of ministers on 14th of June announced about the merger will take place with some measure that took the oil industry with a surprise. On 16th June, Saudi Aramco declared that Abdel-Aziz al-Hokail, who was the executive vice-president...
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...years few industrial mergers has captured the imagination of the business world like Arcelor and Mittal Steel. These two companies are the largest complementary company in terms of steel production (Rao and Sivaramakrishna, 2009, p. 3).
In the year 2006 Mittal Steel asked the shareholders of Arcelor to create the world’s first steel producer , which will produce steel more than 100 million tonne plus. Mittal offered $22.7 billion to the share holders of Arcelor as a deal value. This will be split as 75% of Mittal’s shares and 25% in terms of cash (Zabihollah, 2011, p. 72). However soon it creates a big controversy. Now the question is come up why Mittal Steel chooses and offers Arcelor...
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...US Airways and American Airlines Merger al Affiliation: Us Airways and American Airways Merger Introduction Merging refersto the situation whereby two established company’s linkup and form a new company. The merging companies share the securities depending on the terms agreed on during the contract. The main reasons for merging are profit maximization, diversification, and expansion. Companies may also merge in order to overcome forces of competition by increasing economies of scale. Many companies have merged due to diverse reasons depending on their situations and market scenarios. This paper will discuss the merger that took place between the US airways and the...
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