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Travel Acquisitions Group, formerly a portfolio of Carlson Cos. known as Carlson Leisure Group, enlisted J.D. O'Hara to serve as the company's new senior vice president of corporate development, with a mandate to seek M&A opportunities. O'Hara hails from investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc., where he advised clients and... Continue reading
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Cablevision Systems Corp. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ticketmaster are trying to acquire 49% of concert promoter AEG Live, the NYT reports, citing people briefed on the talks. The move is part of a broader plan to consolidate various segments of the live music... Continue reading
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The paper is entitled "The Dark Role of Investment Banks in the Market for Corporate Control," and you'll probably be hearing more about it. Summarized in a post on the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance blog, the paper -- written by a trio of European academics -- presents what the... Continue reading
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Hospira Inc. CEO Christopher Begley said in a statement in September 2006 that the $2.1 billion purchase of Australian generic cancer drugs group Mayne Pharma Ltd. would add to Hospira's earnings per share in 2007. Lo and behold, the company just reported a 60% jump in fourth-quarter net income. No... Continue reading
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Nissan Motor Co. still wants a U.S. partner. CEO Carlos Ghosn says he thinks it would be a good idea for long-term growth but isn't in talks with anyone right now, according to this AP report. A good guess would be for Chrysler LLC. Earlier this year, Nissan and... Continue reading
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Montreal-based apparel maker Gildan Activewear Inc. is ready to sock away some good returns from its $135 million October purchase of V.I. Prewett & Son. Prewett happens to be the largest supplier of private-label socks to U.S. mass-market retailers. Investor's Business Daily says Gildan made its mark manufacturing blank... Continue reading
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Information storage provider Iron Mountain Inc. has named Bob Brennan as CEO. Brennan plans to use his strong background in M&A and corporate growth to drive business past $3 billion in revenues this year. "We are expanding geographically, and acquisition is definitely central to our strategy going forward," he... Continue reading
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Sears Holdings Corp. fared even worse than expected for the quarter ended Feb. 2: net income of $426 million compared with a net of $811 million for the quarter ended Feb. 3, 2007. In a letter to shareholders, chairman Eddie Lampert compared the... Continue reading
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The announcement of long-anticipated Google Health Thursday by CEO Eric Schmidt may be more of a preview than a full-fledged launch, as this CNet report indicates. And the offering does face many hurdles, as described in The Wall Street Journal and this Venture Beat Life Sciences post. Still, by joining... Continue reading
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While advertising remains its main revenue source ($16.4 billion in 2007), the folks at Google Inc. are taking another bite from Microsoft Corp.'s core software business. They just launched Google Sites, "an application that makes creating a team Web site as easy as editing a document." The new application doesn't... Continue reading
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- Gildan Activewear profits from sock buy [Posted on February 28, 2008 at 5:12 PM]
- From atop Iron Mountain, Brennan sees more deals [Posted on February 28, 2008 at 4:33 PM]
- Sears: Giant comeback via new brand channels? [Posted on February 28, 2008 at 4:27 PM]
- Google Health spotlights deal-intensive EHR sector [Posted on February 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM]
- JotSpot acquisition sets up Google Sites [Posted on February 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM]
- Buddy Blaha's busy at Newell [Posted on February 28, 2008 at 8:00 AM]
- Emerging markets watch: The challenges of selling to booming Brazil [Posted on February 27, 2008 at 5:41 PM]
- David Berg tackles M&A at Best Buy [Posted on February 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM]
- Sun-MySQL integration update [Posted on February 27, 2008 at 2:53 PM]
- Antitrust rule changes [Posted on February 27, 2008 at 11:07 AM]
- Whack-a-mole negotiations and other international deal challenges [Posted on February 27, 2008 at 10:47 AM]
- New strategy chief for Qwest [Posted on February 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM]
- Study: Midmarket M&A to keep pace in '08 [Posted on February 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM]
- Trickle-down M&A [Posted on February 26, 2008 at 4:05 PM]
- Lender sentiment survey: What the market thinks [Posted on February 26, 2008 at 1:43 PM]
- Emerging markets watch: Brazil [Posted on February 26, 2008 at 12:23 PM]
- Fashionably late = failed deals [Posted on February 26, 2008 at 11:32 AM]
- Webcast: China's economic outlook [Posted on February 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM]
- EA's massive Take-Two bid could give Hollywood a BioShock [Posted on February 25, 2008 at 3:24 PM]
- Emerging market lesson, courtesy of InBev [Posted on February 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM]
- Portrait of a sovereign wealth fund [Posted on February 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM]
- Making media transformation look easy [Posted on February 25, 2008 at 9:16 AM]
- Emerging market watch: India adjusts direct investment rules [Posted on February 25, 2008 at 8:43 AM]
- Coke execs: Organic growth is still key [Posted on February 22, 2008 at 5:33 PM]
- KPMG's Gaines: Fewer distressed targets than you might have thought [Posted on February 22, 2008 at 2:26 PM]
- New faces for Sears' brands, and ex-Dell CEO Rollins joins board [Posted on February 22, 2008 at 2:21 PM]
- Cash-rich BAE looking for acquisitions [Posted on February 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM]
- McCormick buys into bees [Posted on February 21, 2008 at 12:21 PM]
- The endgame in airline consolidation [Posted on February 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM]
- Disturbing trends in European M&A [Posted on February 21, 2008 at 8:00 AM]
- A MySpace music venture with the record labels? [Posted on February 20, 2008 at 5:36 PM]
- Telecom equipment tester hires dealmaker [Posted on February 20, 2008 at 11:37 AM]
- Disney's Pixar deal: Happily ever after [Posted on February 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM]
- Toshiba-Sony JV under way [Posted on February 20, 2008 at 10:26 AM]
- Oh yeah, we'll take that [Posted on February 19, 2008 at 3:47 PM]
- eBay's top dealmaker talks strategy [Posted on February 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM]
- Business intelligence software deals: Now comes the race to integrate [Posted on February 19, 2008 at 1:28 PM]
- Airline deals: Integrate now or later [Posted on February 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM]
- John Connelly, U.S. Steel's svp for strategy and biz dev, will retire [Posted on February 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM]
- Sprint, Clearwire and Intel close to WiMax JV [Posted on February 15, 2008 at 1:29 PM]
- Isuzu unwinding China bus venture, Gasgoo.com says [Posted on February 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM]
- IDT chairman Jonas explains his unconventional strategy [Posted on February 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM]
- Microsoft shuffles for integration, Yahoo! defends [Posted on February 15, 2008 at 10:27 AM]
- AstraZeneca spins out Albireo [Posted on February 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM]
- Economic cycles and corporate VC [Posted on February 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM]
- With India JV, Boeing continues down path of distributed manufacturing [Posted on February 14, 2008 at 4:32 PM]
- Danone divests, acquires, makes peace--and big profits [Posted on February 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM]
- Skis and surfwear don't integrate so well for Quiksilver [Posted on February 14, 2008 at 12:03 PM]
- News Corp.-Yahoo! would need a lot more private equity than Hulu did [Posted on February 14, 2008 at 9:20 AM]
- E&Y divestiture Webcast Thursday [Posted on February 13, 2008 at 5:01 PM]
- ABB chief quits over strategic differences with board [Posted on February 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM]
- Coke's strategies (including noncarb deals) show results [Posted on February 13, 2008 at 1:12 PM]
- 'Avoid banquets,' and other tips for dealmaking in China [Posted on February 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM]
- MySpace makes room for incubator [Posted on February 13, 2008 at 12:13 PM]
- Deals of the year [Posted on February 13, 2008 at 11:55 AM]
- Mastering the complexities of China [Posted on February 12, 2008 at 5:43 PM]
- Adjusting integration tactics for tougher times [Posted on February 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM]
- How acquirers can ride the restructuring wave [Posted on February 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM]
- Yahoo! buys, partners, while dealing with Microsoft [Posted on February 12, 2008 at 11:48 AM]
- NCI's new dealmaker faces stagnant market [Posted on February 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM]
- Seeding growth at fruit producer Sun World [Posted on February 12, 2008 at 11:42 AM]
- Wednesday Webcast on the credit crunch [Posted on February 11, 2008 at 4:24 PM]
- Microsoft's CFO and the Yahoo! bid [Posted on February 11, 2008 at 1:33 PM]
- Making the alliance-mangement grade [Posted on February 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM]
- Is the timing right for a Motorola-Nortel JV? [Posted on February 11, 2008 at 11:27 AM]
- Yahoo! to reject Microsoft's $44.6B [Posted on February 9, 2008 at 5:31 PM]
- Ocean Tomo and Blueprint rev up the spinout machine [Posted on February 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM]
- Help wanted: Freescale loses CEO [Posted on February 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM]
- Talking dealmaking in Houston [Posted on February 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM]
- A PE memo to the CEO [Posted on February 8, 2008 at 10:39 AM]
- As court fight with Malone looms, Diller shakes up his deal team [Posted on February 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM]
- The case for Nokia buying Yahoo! [Posted on February 7, 2008 at 4:38 PM]
- Corporate venturers compare notes in Palm Springs [Posted on February 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM]
- Freescale steps up China initiatives [Posted on February 7, 2008 at 1:37 PM]
- For pharma, a nongeneric problem in corporate development [Posted on February 7, 2008 at 9:05 AM]
- Thoughts on AOL from its former dealmaker [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 5:09 PM]
- Shedding layers at Macy's [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 5:05 PM]
- Memo to MSFT: What about Yahoo! customers? [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM]
- Time Warner must wonder: What to do with AOL? [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM]
- Uncertainty and dealmaking collide at Motorola [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM]
- Carl Icahn on what's wrong with the economy [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 11:15 AM]
- BHP, pursuing Rio Tinto, asks: What credit crunch? [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 10:47 AM]
- Smirnoff won't buy Absolut, choosing JV with Ketel One [Posted on February 6, 2008 at 9:18 AM]
- Coke takes a gulp of Honest Tea [Posted on February 5, 2008 at 5:36 PM]
- Integration decision: It will be 'Thomson Reuters Markets' [Posted on February 5, 2008 at 5:33 PM]
- Power to the people [Posted on February 5, 2008 at 1:49 PM]
- Unilever buys ice cream for Russians [Posted on February 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM]
- Rivals sink Morgan Stanley's Vietnam JV [Posted on February 5, 2008 at 10:47 AM]
- Hedge funds, including the activist kind, keep growing [Posted on February 5, 2008 at 10:36 AM]
- More on Motorola's strategic options [Posted on February 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM]
- Season two for ArcelorMittal's post-deal TV series [Posted on February 4, 2008 at 5:00 PM]
- HP-Compaq lessons for a Microsoft-Yahoo! integration [Posted on February 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM]
- Microsoft's Johnson talks Yahoo! Integration [Posted on February 1, 2008 at 4:45 PM]
- How would Microsoft and Yahoo! integrate? [Posted on February 1, 2008 at 3:32 PM]
- While Microsoft chases Yahoo!, its top M&A man is packing to leave [Posted on February 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM]
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