RATIONALE BEHIND M&A Motives There are two types of motives involved in merger and acquisition and these are Explicit and Implicit motives. Explicit Motives • Synergy: Synergy means that the merged firm will have a greater value than the sum of its parts as a result of enhanced revenues and the cost base. • Economies of Scale: Economic of scale refer to the reduction in unit cost achieved by producing a large volume of a product. Horizontal mergers aim at achieving economies of scale. This
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its success in matching new challenging market‚ and sustainability requirements is strongly related to the continuous development of polyol chemistry. This study estimates the global market of polyols by the end of 2017. Asia-Pacific and Europe are largest manufacturer and consumer of polyols. Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region for the Polyols Market both in terms of production and consumption. North America‚ Western Europe‚ and Japan mature markets are expected to advance with slower pace
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been steadily increasing. It is one of the fastest growing economies of the world with growth rates of 6-7 per cent per annum. Due to it favourable demographic and geographical location‚ India plays an important role in world today and economic strategies of EU and USA can be testimony to this. India can become the third ‘global economic giant’ by 2050 and its share of global GDP in $ terms could increase from 2% in 2009 to around 13% in 2050 (Hawksworth‚ Zimmern‚ & Boxshall‚ 2013). New Zealand on
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1. About H&M (1) H&M history -H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB comprises five different independent brands – H&M‚ COS‚ Monki‚ Weekday and Cheap Monday. The H&M Group has a total of approximately 2‚700 stores all over the world. -From a single womenswear store in 1947 to a global company offering fashion for the whole family and their home‚ under the brand names of H&M‚ COS‚ Monki‚ Weekday‚ Cheap Monday and H&M Home. -2012 H&M plans to open in Bulgaria‚ Latvia‚ Malaysia‚ and Mexico and via franchise
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offering innovative products. The main objectives of this study is to analyse the existing channel strategies‚ physical distribution‚ sales force design and marketing strategies of Colgate Palmolive in India and recommend the improvement if any on these areas. Furthermore the communication strategies are discussed in detail. The communication strategy includes the study of the message strategy‚ creative strategy‚ the positioning of various brands of Colgate as well as the use of the various communication
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20 years of consistent growth‚ the company had emerged as a major force in both the domestic and International metal container markets (see Exhibit 1). During those 20 years‚ Crown Cork and Seal had concentrated its manufacturing efforts on tin-plated cans for holding beer‚ soft drinks‚ and aerosol products. This case looks at the metal container industry. Crown’s strategy and position within that Industry‚ and the nature of the problems facing the company during mid-1977. The Metal Container Industry
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Assistant: Mr. Tianjiao Wang Phone: 3943 8560 Email: tianjiaowang@baf.cuhk.edu.hk Course Objectives: This course discusses the role of information technology (IT) in corporate strategy‚ along with their strategic‚ organizational‚ and technical issues in management and use of IT. Topics include IT and business strategy alignment‚ IT-enabled business process reengineering‚ IT outsourcing‚ e-commerce technology and management‚ big data analtics and IT project management. Emphasis of the course is
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Market Potential A market potential is an estimate of the maximum possible sales opportunities for a commodity or group of commodities open to all sellers in a particular market segment for a stated period under consideration Before going to the stage of establishing market potential‚ commodity grouping must be established in such a way that the individual commodities concerned are uniform with respect to the demand function. Since most products do not greatly differ from others‚ consumers
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strategic analysis was carried out in accordance with the Strategy Formulation Framework which was developed by Fred David. The strategic formulation framework encompasses three primary stages which comprises of the input stage‚ the matching stage and the decision stage. The report contains seven chapters and the first chapter is the introduction where each chapter of the report is described briefly. The second chapter describes the Strategy Formulation Framework. The descriptions in this chapter are
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effective production of the service(Stokes&Lomax‚ 2008). The process in H&M is from trend predetermination to selling in stores. In brief‚ designers carry out their work based on the forecasted data. Secondary‚ suppliers manufacture the clothes. Finally‚ the clothes could be sent to stores all around the world and customers buy the products. This process could be compleated within 20 days at the soonest. But the leadtime of H&M is usually 21 days. The information of selling of all stores will be gathered
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