Talk:Mergers and acquisitions/Archives/2011

Great Merger Movement
There is data included: - 1900: value of firms 20% of GDP - 1990: value 3% - 1998-2000: around 10-11% Comments: As far as I know there are no "purchasing" prices available for the year 1900, so all must be based on equity value. That would underestimate the % of GDP!

OH MY - Financing M&A
So much of this stuff is just plain wrong, I don't know where to begin. The generalizations are very simplistic and are often correct in only specialized settings. Until I or someone else has time to edit, caveat lector. 1Winston 19:24, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

I have tried to rearrange this into something closer to the truth, and so that it is more logical, but there might still be more to do here. The terminology may also be UK-focused, for which I make no attempt to apologise. :) Arthur Markham 18:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Marketplace
There are several marketplaces for M&A transactions. There is one major one that escapes my recollection. The one I can remember is MergerNetwork.com.

M&A Resource
Where would one find the latest trends / strategies on

no need of acquisitions
I would like to know some cases where acquisition as a strategy for growth is not feasible. can i get a response at baid_dpk@hotmail.com

Possible POV
In reading through the list of reasons for a merger or acquisition, I noted that manager hubris was mentioned as a bad reason, but managerial expertise was not mentioned as a good reason. Sometimes a buyer's belief that they can manage company X better than the company's current management team is justified. Egfrank 17:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

A good viewpoint.But it complete depends upon Strategic selection of management expertise.If the investments are retreived efficiently with less of (initial investments) distortions,its a good sign. Manager Hubris is always a bad motive behind M & A.Manager's overconfidence about expected synergies from M&A which results in overpayment for the target company.It is rightly said,"Forgetting the source of past success usually leads to massive failure".Jain puneet (talk) 12:56, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

The Great Merger Movement
Can we put this more in context? I don't find an article on this so is it a well known term for the period/activity? Was this restricted to a particular political/economic region? RJFJR 20:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Great Merger Movement was a great wave of U.S. mergers between 1895 and 1904 & the result of a combination of historical circumstances which caused abnormally severe price competition and forced manufacturers to turn to consolidation.It was also induced by Promoter's desire for immediate Profits.Great Merger Movement came as a blow to the people supernaturally sensitive to the dangers of monopoly.It saw More than 3000 substantially manufacturing companies like Carnegie Steel(already a huge firm)combined through mergers into few hundred super corporations.like General Electric,American Can company,National Biscuit Company(Nabisco),US rubber,Eastman Kodak,American Telegraph and Telephone and Many Others.By 1904,300 Large industrial corporations held US $ 20 billion in Assets or more than 40% of the Industrial Wealth of the United States(Estimated).Hope this clarify the period and the region(of Great Merger Movement) asked by fellow contributor.Jain puneet (talk) 12:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

offer
Jackzhp 22:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * conditional tender offer
 * unconditional offer, any or all offer
 * two-tiered offer, the first tier offer (usually cash) is the initial tender offer, the 2nd tier offer (usually securities) involves a followup merger.

Deleted ABN Amro / Barclays Deal
Barclays purchased ABN-AMRO. Information in M&A section was incorrect. The deal never went through. Removed the information. RBS led consortium is now pushing for talks with ABN for a bigger deal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EccentricallyMad (talk • contribs) 08:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

RBS consortium outsmarted Barclays to win ABN Amro for $101 billion.and is the 6th largest M & A deal.There is lot more editing to be done on this article with latest deals and figures. source-http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/2007-whats-the-best-ma-deal-of-the-year/ The figure mentioned for Vodafone Airtouch Mannesmann deal is incorrect.Its the largest deal in M & A amounting 172 US$ billion.202.177.150.191 (talk) 15:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC) Jain puneet (talk) 13:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Removed reference to International corporate finance group
This looked like spam to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mergers_and_acquisitions&diff=150198946&oldid=150195692 13:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Lost asterisk
Under the acquisitions of the 2000s, there's a lost asterisk beside "25 Billion" -- could whoever added that section make a note of what that means, or if nothing, delete it? Thanks. --Jophus00 (talk) 22:05, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Collapsed Merger and Acquisition Bids
This articled doesnt mention that there have been several major bids for mergers which collapsed.like Microsoft- yahoo supposed merger collapsed and the ALCOA acquision bid of ALCAN in 2007 was withdrawed which later(ALCAN)merged with RIO TINTO.United Rentals supposed merger collapsed with cerebrus affecting United Rentals severly.Scrapping of American Home Products deal with Monsanto co. was a setback to pharmaceutical industry.Jain puneet (talk) 13:46, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

cross-borders mergers
Even mergers of companies with headquarters in the same country are very much of this type(cross-border Mergers). After all,when Boeing acquires McDonnell Douglas, the two American companies must integrate operations in dozens of countries around the world. This is just as true for other supposedly “singlecountry” mergers, such as the $27 billiondollar merger of Swiss drug makers Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis).This should also be taken into account in the sub-section Cross border Mergers in the article.Any Comments.Jain puneet

since no objections received,I will go ahead to add this column in the article.202.177.150.34 (talk) 11:33, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Reference: "Top Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Deals" Database not available anymore
It seems like the MANDA Database is not working anymore or changed its direction —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.149.16.78 (talk) 08:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Examples of mergers and takeovers presented as mergers
Hello, I just wanted to mention I replaced the example of merger in the merger vs takeover section. The example of a merger was Chrysler and Daimler-Benz in 1999, whereas this transaction is now widely recognized as an acquisition by Daimler-Benz (they just sold Chrysler to Cerberus...). I moved the DaimlerChrysler case to the next paragraph, as an example of a takeover described as a merger of equals an put a new example of merger (Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline). I hope people agree with these changes. --Sapin (talk) 17:37, 30 June 2009 (UTC)