sectors. Venture capital funds made high-risk early-stage investments in startup companies. Generalist private equity funds provided expansionary funding or transitional funding that allowed small companies to grow and eventually go public. And leveraged buyout funds financed the acquisitions (often by management) of preexisting companies that had the capacity to take on debt and make radical improvements in operations. Private equity funds raised capital primarily from individual investors‚ pension
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Organizations and their structural and political environment 1. Demographic structures‚ product‚ and labour markets • Demographics or demographic data are the characteristics of a population as used in government‚ marketing or opinion research‚ or the demographic profiles used in such research. • Product is the end result of the manufacturing process‚ to be offered to the marketplace to satisfy a need or want. • Labour market is the nominal market in which workers find paying work
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Oil and Gas PricesOil and Gas 2There are many issues that cause the cost of oil and gas to increase. The main contributing issue to the increasing cost of oil and gas is supply and demand‚ when demand is greater than supply‚ the price of oil and gas will increase. The factors that affect supply include increased demand‚ problems with refineries and pipelines‚ and disruption to supply or threat of disruption to supply.With the increased demand for oil in the United States and other countries such
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Introduction Butler Capital Partners (Butler) is an investment fund founded in 1990. Butler closed its first private equity fund‚ European Strategic Fund‚ in 1991. This first fund was mainly focusing on small family owned enterprises and on divisions of larger companies. Mainly of his first success he closed in 1998 his second fund‚ Private Equity II‚ and Butler became one of the largest independent funds in France. With his second fund he would focus on investments in France on a larger scale
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Southwest Airlines: The AirTran Acquisition Executive Summary 1. After the deregulation of the US Airline industry in 1978‚ the barriers to entry within the industry came down significantly and many Low Cost Carriers emerged overtime. 2. The emergence of rival Low Cost Carriers and the improvement in the Operation Efficiencies of Full Cost Carriers progressively eroded Southwest’s competitive advantage. 3. A closer look at AirTran’s value chain and its resultant efficiency shows
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billion dollar investment in 2004. According to Josh Kosman‚ business reporter for the New York Post‚ private equity firms purchase businesses through leveraged buy-outs in which the majority of the money for the acquisition comes from loading the purchased company down with debt. Kosman states that Vanguard actually borrowed the money to fund its buyout by the Blackstone Group‚ and “for the year ending June 30‚ 2008‚ Vanguard spent 122 million on debt payments which contribute to a 4 million dollar
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INDUSTRY ANALYSIS PAPER: Direct Sellers of Personal Care Products School of Business Administration ECO 6351 Economics for Managers (Spring 2007) Dr. Chien Chen Team #6: Nisha Stephens and Cathy Osh As a team member‚ I hereby certify and warrant: (a) that this Paper is our original team work; (b) that we have acknowledged all the sources used in this Paper. I understand that copying of another’s work and representing it as our own work is a serious academic offense‚ and should be treated as such;
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Strategic Management Case Cardinal Health Inc. by Developed for Study Assignment Purposes for MBA Course at American Military University BUSN 620 Strategic Management Cardinal Health helps pharmacies‚ hospitals and ambulatory care focus on patient care 1 Disclaimer and Material Purpose Material Purpose: This document and all of the materials contained within are strictly for study assignment purposes to fulfill MBA course BUSN 620 Strategic Management on August 01‚ 2011-September 25‚ 2011
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one survive e.g. HDFC BK + TIMES BK = HDFC 3. Takeovers: control over mgmt thru substantial portion of its equity. e.g. Credit Swiss Group controlled First Boston’s Mgmt thru Equity acquisition. Both remained in existence. 4. Asset purchases: A buyout a division or assets of T e.g. Coca-Cola paid Rs 170Cr to Parle for its Soft drinks brands like Thumps up‚ Limca‚ Gold Spot‚ etc. The Acquisition Process 1. Acquisition Search 2. Approaching the Target a. Passive Strategy b. Active Strategy
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Stephen Kim MGMT 430 Growing for Broke Case Write Up A. Executive Summary: Paragon Tools is having a difficult time deciding if the company should acquire MonitoRobotics or completely remove the service area from the company. The company was facing foreign competition. So they decided to launch a number of different initiatives that were designed to spur revenue growth‚ which gave aggressive pricing and sales to increase with more share in the core market. Those tactics drove out most of the new
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