Tata’s Takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover: Bumpy Road or Smooth Ride? In June 2008‚ India-based Tata Motors Ltd. announced that it had completed the acquisition of the two iconic British brands - Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) from the US-based Ford Motors for US$ 2.3 billion. Tata Motors stood to gain on several fronts from the deal. One‚ the acquisition would help the company acquire a global footprint and enter the high-end premier segment of the global automobile market. After the acquisition
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700 jobs‚ more than 10% of the company’s work force. Employees of the century-old company thought they had seen the shake-up of all shake-ups. Just wait until they see what Procter & Gamble Co. could have in store. In announcing the $52.4 billion takeover of Gillette‚ P&G’s CEO‚ A.G. Lafley‚ said he planned to "learn a lot from the people at Gillette" and talked about ways the companies could combine Cincinnati-based P&G’s knowledge of women with the shaving know-how of Boston-based Gillette and delve
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 12 (2)‚ 2009‚ 213–237 C 2009 Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S1366728909004015 Bilingual first-language development: Dominant language takeover‚ threatened minority language take-up∗ 213 V I R G I N I A C . M U E L L E R G AT H E R C O L E ˆ ENLLI MON THOMAS Bangor University‚ Wales This study explores the extent to which bilingual speakers in stable bilingual communities become fully bilingual in their two community languages. Growing
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Does the closure of Volvo’s Uddevalla manufacturing plant‚ together with the takeover of the company by Ford‚ indicate that Taylorism is indeed the ‘one best way’? ‘Taylorism’ or ‘Scientific Management’ has been a prevalent idea in business theory since Frederick Winslow Taylor produced his “Principles of Scientific Management’ in 1911. The book was written in response to then President Theodore Roosevelt’s challenge to the American people to introduce new methods to create greater efficiency
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acquisitions add to shareholder wealth – both from an acquirer and target perspective. We find that the time period over which shareholder wealth is measured‚ the payment form and the nature of the bid all have an effect on the findings. A case study of the ABN AMRO acquisition by RBS is examined to validate the findings from the literature review. Introduction The aim of this paper is to analyse whether or not M&A (Merger & Acquisition) activity generates shareholder wealth. The paper will also focus on
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Novartis‚ a large multinational pharmaceutical company‚ recently diversified by buying Alcon‚ in a £24.8bn deal. Alcon is a producer of eye care products such as contact lenses. Google has diversified by investing £124m in a wind power business. To what extent is diversification the best strategy to achieve profitable growth? Justify your answer with reference to Novartis‚ Google and/ or other organisations that you know. (40 marks) Diversification - Practice under which a firm enters an industry
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behavior in global banking and business can mean the crash of an economy worldwide as it happened in 2008 with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. 2. What was the case about? (Summary of the Case) After the Royal Bank of Scotland Group acquired ABN Amro in October 2007‚ both banks started posting massive losses‚ revealing lower
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shares‚ so this case is clearly a complete acquisition. The merger of Roche is clearly a horizontal takeover. Both firms focus on pharmaceutical research‚ where Roche is mainly focused on pharmaceuticals and mdedical diagnoses. Genentech is primarily focused on devevloping products based on gene splicing or recombinant DNA for diseases such as cancer and aids. The reason for a complete takeover could be that Roche is looking for the benefits of economies of scale‚ which is mentioned in Berk & DeMarzo
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ABN AMRO History Department ABN AMRO‚ 1990-pReseNt The merger‚ 1990-1991 On 22 September 1991‚ the two largest general banks in the Netherlands‚ Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank (Amro)‚ merged. The resulting company adopted the name ABN AMRO. The two principal motives for the merger were to concentrate strengths and to scale up business internationally. The South American operations of ABN AMRO’s subsidiary Hollandsche Bank-Unie were combined with those of Banco Real
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No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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