A merger is the combination of two companies into one company. A joint venture is two separate companies working together on a project. Here are examples of both:
merger: Gulf & Western (a defunct conglomerate ) makes a deal to acquire Sony. Sony shareholders agree. The new corporation is now Gulf & Sony. This is a simplified example without getting into stock swaps or purchases or other items.
joint venture: Ford & Chrysler decide to combine certain of each other's researchers in order to build a car that runs on corn oil. They may be technically required, to on a temporary basis to form F&C Ventures Corporation to do this depending on regulatory requirements.
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Syndicate is a informal arrangment and will be disbanded once the objecive is attained. Joint Venture is legal long term arrangment with a common objective.
No - a business merger is typically when one company absorbs another. If company ABC buys controlling interest in company XYZ, then ABC is now the owner of XYZ and can choose to dissolve it or make it a subsidiary. A joint venture is a collaboration by two or more businesses. Automakers typically do this - Ford needed a minivan in its portfolio, and sold a Mercury Villager which was nothing more than a rebadged Nissan Quest.
A joint venture spreads the risk of the business between multiple people. If the business fails, then one person wouldn't have to cover all the losses.
In order to know how joint ventures are taxed it depends on the type of joint venture formed. There are joint venture companies and just a partnership without forming a legal company. Any, attorney or law website can explain this further. Out-law.com is a good place to start.
The Joint Venture is temporary partnering and alliance but Merger is permanently combination.
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subcontractor join to main contractor to form joint venture but that venture is not partnership
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Syndicate is a informal arrangment and will be disbanded once the objecive is attained. Joint Venture is legal long term arrangment with a common objective.
The purpose of equity alliance is less specific than a joint venture. Unlike a joint venture, one partner retains control through their majority shareholding in an equity alliance.
Merger and acquisition is the buying, selling, dividing and combing of different companies. This is done to help the company grow in its area with out using a joint venture.
If there is a joint venture between two companies. Each of the companies, under the equity method, only records half of the income from the joint venture on the income statement-nothing on balance sheet. With the proportionate consolidation method, the parent companies record half of the liabilities and assets from the joint venture.
This was a joint venture between two companies not two countries. The two companies involved in the venture are General Electric in the US and FANUC Ltd. in Japan.
The Smart car is produced in a joint venture between Mercedes and Swatch and the other is produced by the Ford Motor Company
John E. Triantis has written: 'Creating successful acquisition and joint venture projects' -- subject(s): Management, Joint ventures, Consolidation and merger of corporations
Q.9 Drive your beat is a joint venture between apparel brand Levi's and which car brand?