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Idea 34 - Mergers and acquisitions (50 Management ideas you really need to know)

Idea 34  -  Mergers and acquisitions The hostile takeover is about as exhilarating as it gets up at head office. It's the chief executive suite as campaign tent, complete with hurrying advisers, councils-of-war and swift- changing tactics. For leaders who favor the military style, this is as close as it gets to being a real general - the plan, the strike, the capitulation and the prize. Sadly for them, the hostile bid is becoming less fashionable, but acquisition remains a perfectly reasonable, if usually less dramatic, strategic option for companies of all kinds. Mergers and acquisitions - 'M&A' in investment-banker speak - attract more public attention than anything a big company does except, perhaps, firing half the workforce or going bust. Typically, they happen when one company acquires all the assets and liabilities of another. Is there a difference between a merger and an acquisition? Not very often. A true merger is a marriage of equals in which sh