Mergers & Acquisitions: The Case of Microsoft and Nokia Luís Franco Hilário Advisor: Peter Tsvetkov Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degrees of MSc in Business Administration‚ at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa SEPTEMBER 2011 1 Abstract Due to the financial downturn and the emergence of new devices in the global handset market has led companies to change their business strategies. Indeed‚ Mergers and Acquisition are considered one of the
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Because this industry is growing and more and more companies are entering‚ this merger will help these two companies increase their power‚ which will threaten the smaller more local services like Eat24.com in California or Delivery.com. Therefore‚ this merger will be eliminating the competition since the only intense competition in the market existed between Grubhub and Seamless themselves. This means that not only will
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obvious. Blatent‚ obvious‚ and in my opinion‚ even obscene. Although my knowledge of the actual facts surrounding the merger of AOL and Time Warner is
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Employers are more concerned about the health insurance mergers The regulators of the national and state are analyzing the state of the health insurance merges that are kept pending are expecting the officials to take action against it. The fear of most of the employers in the industry is that the deduced competition among the health insurance distributors results in the increase in their health rates. Acquisition of Cigna Corporation by Anthem for fifty three billion dollars is quite problematic
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Core issue: The case describes the events which lead to the merger of two large pharmaceutical giant Glaxo welcome and SmithKline beecham which lead to the formation of the entity GlaxoSmithKline. The core concern of the case is that although the newly merged company has invested heavily in R&D there is little evidence of success. Identification of supporting issues: These are some of the other issues that came up in the case which lead to the overall lack of success: * Significant
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| | 2010 Revenues (M) | $12‚104 | $2‚600 | 2010 O&D Revenue | ~ 88 Million | ~ 25 Million | 2010 Load Factor | 79.3% | 81.4% | 2010 Departures | 1‚114‚451 | 252‚663 | Airports Served | 72 | 69 | Source: Southwest Airlines Media / Merger Website 4. Given the increasing consolidation in the industry in general and rising dominance of major competitors such as Delta and United in particular‚ Southwest Airlines did not have many options but to support its languishing growth through
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Walt Disney-Pixar Merger Brief Industry Analysis Because of the technology nowadays‚ one successful film can be distributed all over the world‚ which is in a form of motion pictures or DVD. Animation is one media that is spread all over the world; push it to be one of fastest growing industry. The demand for the animation is increasing from the emerging number of cables and satellite TV and the popularity of The Internet. In addition‚ in the past‚ the target market of the animation industry
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Drexel LeBow College of Business FIN 640 – Mergers and Acquisitions Case Study: Martin Marietta – Vulcan Merger Presented by: Dharmesh Bharathan Andrew Hall Luis Hernandez Aziz Khan Teng Zhang Executive Summary This case study examines the proposed merger of Vulcan Materials and Martin Marietta both providers of construction aggregates. A stock-for-stock merger had the potential of making the company a global leader in construction materials‚ but was marred by disagreements over executive
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Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employee Motivation- Telecommunication Merger in the UK A case of T-Mobile and Orange Mobile Merger Abstract Over the past one decade‚ mergers and acquisitions increased at a record rate globally‚ especially in the United States. The telecommunication sector experienced no exclusion to this phenomenon and the three major telecommunication mergers included MCI and Verizon‚ Sprint and Nextel‚ and BellSouth and AT&T. As a result‚ the telecom playfield
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Merger Analysis under the Antitrust Laws Today‚ the United States is in the midst of a merger wave. The number of mergers and acquisitions reported has increased dramatically as a direct result of the past financial crisis and economic downturn. During the period‚ the Federal Trade Commission along with the Justice Department has blocked a great number of potential mergers and acquisitions‚ helping save consumers “millions of dollars that they would otherwise have paid in higher prices
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