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Eaton Profit Rises 35 Percent: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diversified manufacturer Eaton Corp ETN reported higher quarterly profit on Tuesday on strength in its electrical and hydraulic segments, but said the balance of the year will be weaker than it had predicted earlier. Net earnings for the second...; Tags: Sales strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales force management, Financial accounting, Eaton Corp., quarterly profit, earnings, Thomson Reuters Corp., acquisition, earnings per share, New York, sales, analyst, industry; News items 2008-07-15
How Not to Do An Acquisition: AstraZeneca-MedImmune: When AstraZeneca ponied up more than $15 billion for the biotech MedImmune just over a year ago, the deal suggested that desperate Big Pharmas were willing to open their wallets wide for biotechs without looking too closely into the question of whether they were really worth the money. As I...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Biotechnology, Sales strategy, David P. Hamilton, MedImmune Inc., AstraZeneca Plc., acquisition; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Teva to Buy Barr For $7.46 Billion, Boost Generic Lead: By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic drug company, said on Friday it would buy rival Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc for $7.46 billion to expand its leadership in the U.S. market and fortify its presence in Europe....; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, pharmaceutical company, drug company, prescription, franchise, analyst, acquisition, M&A, stock, Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, industry, leadership, cost savings, women, incentive, leader, health care, agreement; News items 2008-07-18
FlexiGroup Buys Certegy For $31.4m: Consumer finance company FlexiGroup Ltd will acquire interest-free credit provider Certegy Australia Ltd for $31.4 million in a cash and scrip transaction.Adelaide-headquartered Certegy is being sold by Florida-based, New York Stock Exchange-listed, financial transactions processor Fidelity National Information Services Inc FIS.The purchase will be in two tranches of $15...; Tags: Acquisition, Receivables, Payment, Dividend, Earnings, FlexiGroup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, AAP; News items 2008-07-14
Lloyds TSB Seen Set to End Talks on German Deal: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Lloyds TSB LLOY plans to end talks about a possible takeover of German banks Dresdner or Postbank, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Lloyds had been considering making a move for Dresdner Bank, owned by insurer Allianz ALVG, and...; Tags: Bank, Acquisition, Lloyds TSB, Dresdner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Corporate Law, Investment; News items 2008-07-10

HSBC Says to Keep KEB Listed If Deal Goes Through: SEOUL (Reuters UK) - HSBC Holdings HSBA, whose $6.3 billion (3.15 billion pound) bid to buy Korea Exchange Bank KEB has stalled over a legal saga, pledged on Tuesday to keep KEB listed and name local directors if the acquisition goes through. The pledges,...; Tags: Bank, Acquisition, Union, HSBC, HSBC Holdings, Korea Exchange Bank, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law; News items 2008-07-21
British Airways to Buy France's L'Avion: PARIS (Reuters UK) - British Airways BAY has agreed to buy small French business airline l'Avion for 68 million euros (52 million pounds) and it will become part of its new OpenSkies unit, they said in a joint statement on Wednesday. OpenSkies started on June 19...; Tags: British Airways Plc., Boeing Co., L'Avion, Acquisition Price, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Acquisition; News items 2008-07-02
Adelaide Energy Buys Katnook Gas Fields: Adelaide Energy Ltd has bought the Katnook gas fields and processing plant at the Otway Basin in South Australia from Origin Energy Resources Ltd and SAGASCO South East Inc.Adelaide Energy said it had entered an agreement to buy the resource near Penola in the south-east of South Australia.The company...; Tags: Acquisition, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Agreement, Katnook, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, AAP; News items 2008-07-07
Better Late Than Never: Omnicom Group Says It's Finally In Buying Mode: After reporting that Omnicom Group's Q2 net income and worldwide revenue both rose 11 percent—release is here PDF—the ad holding company's CEO John Wren told listeners to the company's earnings call that the company was finally ready to get serious about acquisitions. -- Bad economy, better prices: Wren's pronouncement,...; Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, David Kaplan, Advertising, VC+M&A; News items 2008-07-23
Sprint, SK Talks on Technology, Not Acquisition: By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Telecom Co Ltd and Sprint Nextel Corp S are in preliminary talks about collaborating on technology and not discussing a merger, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Their comments came...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Wi-Fi, SK Telecom Co., Sprint Communications, Sprint Nextel Corp., South Korea, acquisition, merger, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., CDMA, private equity, wireless, customer service, wireless network, mobile, network; News items 2008-07-15
Alliant Tech Says Major Acquisitions Not Attractive: By Tim Hepher FARNBOROUGH (Reuters) - U.S. rocket maker Alliant Techsystems ATK aims to expand in space systems, advanced weapons and electronics but is shunning big acquisitions after its bid for a Canadian defense business failed. Chairman and Chief Executive Daniel Murphy said...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, BAE Systems Plc., EBITDA, Airbus, acquisition, Canada, electronics, model-driven architecture, satellite, amortization, valuation, Thomson Reuters Corp., analyst, tax, U.S., board, hardware; News items 2008-07-18
Divest and Conquer - How to Make Your Company a More Attractive Acquisition Target: The paper depicts that divesting a company is often seen as an admission of failure or a sure sign of a company in crisis. Yet, just as farmers prune their trees to help them grow; smart companies understand that divestitures are all part of the corporate lifecycle. While many divestitures...; Tags: Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, Hewitt Associates LLC, divestiture, core competency, acquisition, financial; White papers
Executing a Quick Acquisition: A chemical manufacturer planned to expand its presence outside the US by acquiring a division of a much larger US multinational. The combined entities with multiple locations in 35 countries and 25,000 employees needed to be consolidated, requiring the closure of several offices and the severance of some employees. Using...; Tags: payroll solutions, Benefits, Mercer, employee benefit, benefit plan, database system, stock, agreement, acquisition, financial, benefit, tool; Case studies
Unifying Sales Incentives Following Growth Through Acquisitions: In the aftermath of over 20 acquisitions in five years, a global image databank had many different sales incentive plans in place around the world. Management wanted to harmonize the plans so sales reps would all be paid and rewarded in the same way and to support the company's new...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Mercer, sales, acquisition, sales force, equity, incentive, Web; Case studies
The Impact of Aging on Self-Efficacy and Computer Skill Acquisition: The study presented in this paper draws on self-efficacy theory to propose that age-related differences in the amount of computer skills acquired can be explained by age-related confidence in operating the computer technology, rather than a direct impact of chronological age. Focusing on belief systems may help guide future research...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Gale Group, computer, training, worker, acquisition; White papers
The Strategic Imperative in Talent Planning: In the space of seven years and through aggressive acquisitions, Valero has gone from a bit player with one oil refinery to a Fortune 15 company with the largest number of refineries in North America, filling stations nationwide and 22,000 employees. As late as the fourth quarter of 2002, Valero...; Tags: Workforce management, refinery, talent, recruiting, agent, Human Resources, acquisition; White papers
Assessing Insurance Deals: Insurance industry mergers and acquisitions skyrocketed during the bull market of the late 1990s but created little shareholder value. Some deals, however, were more successful than others. The paper briefly depicts that investors preferred deals for growth over those chasing cost synergies and acquisitions of divisions over purchases of companies...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Financial accounting, McKinsey & Co., insurance, M&A, shareholder, acquisition; White papers
New Product Strategy and Partnership/Acquisition Focus for Medical Products Company: This $200 million disposable medical device division of an international medical products company faced maturity in its present markets and limited R&D funds to allocate to next-generation products. PRTM was hired to implement an actionable product strategy so the company could realize its dreams of being a major player in...; Tags: Business structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, HEALTHCARE, Corporate law, PRTM, medical device, medical product, partnership, acquisition, product development, R&D; Case studies
Empowerment in the Context of Transformational Change: A Study of Acquisitions and Privatizations in Eastern Europe: This paper examines conditions under which empowerment (decision autonomy, dialogic leadership) is connected with positive and negative effects, respectively, in regard to managing transformational change in Eastern Europe. Acquisitions by foreign investors in Poland and Russia (N = 45 companies) and privatizations through employee buy-out in Romania (N = 5...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, AllBusiness.com, empowerment, privatization, Eastern Europe, crisis management, acquisition, leadership; White papers
Good Communication Is Essential for Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: Good communication is essential to successful mergers and acquisitions. The communication role needs to begin during the preliminary stages to set the scene. Too often the communication doesn't start until too late. Mergers and acquisitions go through three broad phases. Overwhelming experience indicates directly or indirectly that people issues are...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A; White papers