There are two kind of buyers:
Strategic Buyer - Companies that want to expand through acquisitions. They are active in managing the companies they acquire.
Financial Buyer - These are private equity funds. They acquire to increase the portfolio of companies they hold. Passive owners of companies they acquire. Usually exits a company after 5 to 7 years.
Acquisitions by their very nature are inherently strategic.
The aim of any acquisition or merger is to increase growth and profitability.
Mergers and Acquisitions
It is more important in the long term to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable. Doing what is immediately profitable can often lead to profit issues later.
Mergers and acquisitions are tools to fulfil growth strategy. If a company is working in the market segment where there are so many growth opportunities available and in that market segment few or couple of companies are working and those companies cannot individually take benefits from that growth opportunity then couple or many companies can merge together to take benefit otherwise if the segment has two companies one is relatively large company then other but it don't own the technical speciality or that item which is required by the company to take benefit of growth opportunity but the other small firm has that speciality then the large firm can acquire the small one and by using that technical speciality of that small firm can take benefit of growth opportunity
The adjective form of the noun strategy is strategic. The adverb form is strategically.
You add control accounts at strategically placed control points.
A period of intense technological changes encourages mergers and acquisitions.
Whereas mergers are generally done voluntarily, in case of acquisitions, there are pressures, financial obligations involved.
Mergers and Acquisitions
The Big Break - 2003 Mergers and Acquisitions was released on: USA: 14 November 2006
Mergers & Acquisitions is the strategy, management and financing of combining separate corporate entities into one. A merger is made of companies with similar sizes. An acquisition occurs when a larger company purchases a smaller company. Mergers & Acquisitions are financed by cash or stock.
"What were the Major mergers and acquisitions over the last five years in all sector of business?list them." can i get mor informationabout the above mergers and acquisition
The Sopranos - 1999 Mergers and Acquisitions 4-8 is rated/received certificates of: Argentina:16
An investment bank is the place to look for a job if one is interested in working with mergers and acquisitions. One could start as a Junior Investment Banker and work their way up.
RBI & Union Cabinet
Probably at least an MBA degree or be an Attorney.
Vodafone AirTouch acquired Mannesmann for $202.8 billion
Nope they sure havent ... ... ... ...