1. Executive Summary Greencross Limited‚ the company behind Petbarn stores and Greencross vets expanded into Western Australia with a $205 million takeover of petcare retailer City Farmers. Greencross’ purchase of City Farmers added 42 stores to its network‚ taking its total number to 177‚ plus 108 vet clinics. Greencross funded its takeover of City Farmers by offering new shares to the former owners‚ existing Greencross shareholders and institutional investors. The transaction results in a Greencross
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moderate rate. Interco management believed that the bad performance of the apparel group would lead to a weakening of overall operations and cause the equity market to undervalue its shares. Due to this situation‚ Interco was seen as a potential takeover target. Despite restructuring efforts‚ City Capital owning already 8‚7% of Interco’s stock proposed a merger with Interco. It offered to buy all of Interco’s shares at a price of $64 per share. Interco’s reaction was to mandate Wasserstein Perella’s
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RJR Nabisco RJR NABISCO AGENDA Historical Perspective LBO Candidate Special Committee Key Players Valuations Risk Factors Post LBO Plans Final Takeover Historical Perspective Started in 1875 as a tobacco firm. In 1967 ‚ RJR entered in food‚ restaurant‚ alcohol and shipping business. In 1987: - Food Business: $9.4 billion - Tobacco Business: $ 7 billion LBO Candidate Operating under low debt Exhibited long term and non cyclical growth RJR’s break up value: Nabisco $8 to $9
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Acquisition or takeover : Acquistion may be defined as an act of acquiring effective control over assets or management of a company by another company without any combination of businesses or companies.In acquisition ‚ two or more companies may remain independent‚ separate legal entity but there may be change in control of companies. Acquistion : When managements of acquiring and target companies mutually and willingly agree for the takeover it is called acquisition or friendly takeover Takeover : Takeover
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EXTENDED ESSAY BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH QUESTION: “How effective would the takeover of Motorola mobility be for Google as a growth strategy?” Candidate name: Candidate number: School name: School number: Supervisor: Date submitted: Word count: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I would like to thank my extended essay supervisor for her continuous support throughout this assignment. Her guidance and patience have been of great help to me in completing this task. I would also like to thank
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Should businesses use aggressive forms of external growth (such as takeovers) or should they rely on less hostile options (such as mergers)? There are two ways a business can expand‚ internally (which is also referred to as organic) and externally (which is also referred to as inorganic). In this report‚ I’m mainly going to be focusing on external growth. Firstly‚ what is meant by ‘external growth’? “External Growth is when businesses grow by integrating (joining) with another business.”(Exercise
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Electronics 3 Strategies to enhance share price value of Eagles Electronics 4 Residual theory of dividends 9 Reasons why sometimes firms opt for dividend cuts 9 Impact of dividend cut on Eagles Electronics 10 Impact of takeover of the company (Benefits) 13 Assessing impact of takeover of produtos compostos by eagles electronics 14 Conclusion 15 References 17
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is not without its problems. We will answer a few questions about US Airways’ hostile takeover attempt based on its success. First‚ if US Airways is triumphant‚ will it be in the best interest of Delta Airlines to be absorbed in such a takeover? A review of some pros and cons to this merger will reveal its affect on the industry. On the other hand‚ if US Airways is unsuccessful in their attempted takeover‚ what does the future hold for the six largest airlines in the United States? Are these
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issues of asset control for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade‚ Inc.‚ in light of the outstanding takeover offers by Chartwell Investments‚ Dreyer‘s Grand‚ Unilever‚ and Meadowbrook Lane Capital in January 2000. The case requires a discussion of fundamental firm objectives and the implications of a non-traditional corporate orientation; one needs to review the development of Ben & Jerry’s strong social consciousness and the takeover defence mechanisms that maintain management’s control on company assets. One is
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Engineering 9 Section Cases Nantucket Nectars Nantucket Nectars was founded by Tom First and Tom Scott. It is a company that has been built around its “personal” informal corporate structure and as a result of owners’ passion for the venture. Unlike any other product in the market‚ they created a very high quality product which lead their customers to pay the extra price premium for it. First and Scott wanted their company to grow and in order to do so they had two options: they would come out
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