Motives and Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions by JUANJUAN WANG September 2007 A dissertation presented in part consideration for the degree of MA in Finance and Investment Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to all those people who helped me complete this dissertation. Firstly‚ I do appreciate my supervisor Ms. Lynda Taylor’s assistance. She gave me valuable feedback and guidance throughout this dissertation. In addition‚ I
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Is it necessarily a good thing‚ in terms of the welfare of society as a whole‚ for the government to step in to break up a monopoly in order to create a competitive industry? A monopoly exists when one single firm is the only producer of a commodity in the market‚ allowing them to set prices as they wish and maximise profits due to the high barriers to entry. In this case‚ the firm is given the ability to exploit their consumers in terms of price discrimination based on price elasticity. In this
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Mergers and Acquisitions Broc Romanek and Cynthia M. Krus FINANCE 05.09 I Fast track route to mastering mergers and acquisitions I Covers the key areas of M&A‚ from detailing how to structure different types of transactions to meet varying objectives to the history of M&A activity and the impact of the Internet and other new technologies I Examples and lessons from some of the world’s most successful businesses‚ including Daimler-Chrysler‚ Vodaphone-Mannesman and UFJ Bank I Includes a
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Referat Josef Meinrad Ackermann 1 Content Welcome to my presentation about Josef Ackermann. I will give you some personal data and talk about his private life‚ his education and his professional career‚ about memberships‚ projects and strategies‚ and honours and profits as well as about failures‚ scandals and headlines‚ Ackermann’s salary and about the big question at the very end. If you have any questions‚ please feel free to ask me at the end of my presentation. 2 Personal data Josef Meinrad
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Monkey business? Scientists put a group of five monkeys in a cage. At the top of a ladder‚ they hung a banana. As soon as a monkey climbed the ladder‚ he was showered with cold water; the group soon gave up trying to reach the banana. • Next‚ the scientists disconnected the cold water and replaced one of the five monkeys. When the new monkey tried to climb the ladder‚ the others Immediately pulled him down and gave him a good beating. The new monkey learned quickly‚ and enthusiastically Joined
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GLOBAL MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Mergers and Acquisitions (M & A) describes a business transaction that joins organisations together or splits them apart‚ triggering major changes for employees of participating companies. Such transactions include mergers‚ acquisitions‚ spin-offs‚ divestitures or partial disposals‚ joint ventures‚ private equity deals‚ management buy-outs and buy-ins‚ and IPOs. Merger also consults on the people implications of transactions for distressed and bankrupt
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business organization (business.lovetoknow.com) Ethical activities carried out by Vodafone One ethical activity that is carried out by Vodafone would be the introduction of its content bar which prohibits access any content rated 18 which would be otherwise accessible by children and young people automatically until proof is provided by customers that they are 18 or over. Another such ethical activity performed by Vodafone would be the company deciding against sending bulk unsolicited SMS messages and
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Vodafone The current IMC campaign Zoozoo campaign Vodafone’s Zoozoo campaign was launched with the main motto of promoting its Value Added Services (VAS) in India. Vodafone was trying hard to capture the VAS Space because it is a potential cash cow for cellular companies. As Vodafone was a new brand in India‚ it had a challenging task to develop their cellular value added services. Vodafone has introduced a new characters called the Zoozoos
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Vodafone’s current position? An example of primary research is actually exploring the needs of customers at vodafone which as a result‚ I did research such as the questionnaire that I issued‚ this is primary research which gave an idea of different aspects of what people want and their needs from vodafone this included areas such as: If they had ever used vodafone before and what they thought of vodafones quality of service etc. By using primary research such as the questionnaire abled to give an indication
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Zoozoo campaign. Never in the history of Indian advertising we witnessed a campaign that generated so much interest and curiosity among all the segments of the society be it young or old. In this report‚ we analyze the marketing strategies used by Vodafone‚ the efforts that have been put in the
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