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For a glimpse of one of the million ways the credit crisis affects plans in the real economy, think about the newly merged Wendy's/Arby's Group Inc. On Monday, Triarc Cos. completed its $2.34 billion acquisition of Wendy's International Inc., the third-largest hamburger fast-food chain behind McDonald's Corp. and Burger King... Continue reading
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The bank consolidation and government bailouts taking place in Europe are keeping pace with what we're experiencing in the United States. Recent transactions include European lender Dexia SA receiving a $9.2 billion cash infusion from the governments of France, Belgium and Luxembourg; and Lloyd's TSB Group plc buying Scotland's HBOS... Continue reading
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The financial crisis has produced some wild mood swings in parts of Charlotte, N.C., also known as Banktown. As Yvette Kantrow observed Monday on Dealscape, first came the triumphalism over news that hometown titan Bank of America Corp. will buy New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co. Monday it was despair... Continue reading
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The expanding financial crisis is not only completely remapping the world of finance, it's also forcing a rewrite of the traditional rules of integration. Most strategic consultants agree that post-merger integration issues covering IT systems, personnel, training, real estate, branding and others should be discussed and budgeted for long before... Continue reading
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CD has been keeping an eye on developments in the auto industry's global push to make energy-efficient vehicles and the infrastructure to support their sale. Here's the latest: MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., majority owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., just invested HK$1.8 billion ($230 million), in China's BYD Co.... Continue reading
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Lost somewhat in the attention paid to the financial services industry's $700 billion bailout was congressional approval of a $25 billion loan package geared toward U.S. automakers to assist them in building more fuel-efficient vehicles.... Continue reading
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You might think we're referring to Monday, Sept. 29. That's when Citigroup Inc. announced it was buying Wachovia Corp. for $2.16 billion in stock. But Oct. 2, 2006, would be just as accurate. That's the day Wachovia closed its nearly $26 billion acquisition of Golden West Financial Corp. Even at... Continue reading
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If you're familiar with Corporate Dealmaker, you probably know our mission: "Helping companies succeed in the deal economy." You probably also know that online, in print and at our conferences the mission normally translates into discussions of applied best practices across the wide range of disciplines that figure in corporate... Continue reading
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Rapid City, S.D., utility Black Hills Corp. announced Thursday it has promoted Richard W. Kinzley to vice president of strategic planning and development. Maurice Klefeker, who formerly led dealmaking, left in August to pursue other interests. Kinzley has been a member of the corp dev team for a decade, and... Continue reading
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It was no surprise that Oracle Corp. is among the candidates for our Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers, or MACD, award in the information technology industry. It has been one of the most transaction-intensive companies in the IT world in recent years. It looks like the deals will continue. Speaking at... Continue reading
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- Congress approves $25B in loans for automakers [Posted on September 29, 2008 at 1:29 PM]
- The day Wachovia died [Posted on September 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM]
- Perspectives on financial crisis at CD Forum this week [Posted on September 29, 2008 at 11:10 AM]
- Black Hills utility promotes long-time dealmaker [Posted on September 26, 2008 at 3:28 PM]
- Oracle ready to spend billions more on M&A [Posted on September 26, 2008 at 2:10 PM]
- Leading dealmakers to gather in NY for CD Forum [Posted on September 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM]
- J.P. Morgan-WaMu deal: Another massive integration ahead [Posted on September 26, 2008 at 9:59 AM]
- Rite Aid shakes up management to address integration woes [Posted on September 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM]
- For U.S. execs, cross-border projects may be less fun for a while [Posted on September 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM]
- Alcoa shakes up its senior deal team [Posted on September 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM]
- MySpace Music JV review: Cool offering, CEO still needed [Posted on September 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM]
- China steelmaker gets Australian mine stake as vertical integration continues [Posted on September 25, 2008 at 10:50 AM]
- CBS chief on the Web's future [Posted on September 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM]
- Food for thought: MSN-Hearst joint venture [Posted on September 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM]
- Gap shapes up online with Athleta buy [Posted on September 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM]
- BofA continues to put its stamp on Countrywide [Posted on September 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM]
- Report: Gazprom and Total to invest $4.5B in Bolivia [Posted on September 24, 2008 at 8:35 AM]
- Barclays and Lehman: Job cuts, trading and risk management integration [Posted on September 23, 2008 at 3:55 PM]
- Will Barclays turn its back on Lehman's ETN holders? [Posted on September 23, 2008 at 1:05 PM]
- How South Korea's Doosan changed course and bought Bobcat [Posted on September 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM]
- Netflix adds 'Hannah Montana' and others to its download ecosystem [Posted on September 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM]
- Calpine offshoot Rosetta names biz dev executive [Posted on September 23, 2008 at 8:58 AM]
- Ford, Dow Chemical chairmen promote economic confab [Posted on September 22, 2008 at 5:19 PM]
- What do corporate leaders think about the financial meltdown? [Posted on September 22, 2008 at 4:22 PM]
- The story behind the survey [Posted on September 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM]
- How to participate in the Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers survey [Posted on September 22, 2008 at 9:55 AM]
- Building a winning deal team: Who's hiring and what they're paying [Posted on September 22, 2008 at 9:26 AM]
- Turmoil on Wall Street and a tale of two strategics [Posted on September 19, 2008 at 4:51 PM]
- From emergency mergers to an instant government agency [Posted on September 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM]
- Credit crunch squeezes Cablevision sale ... and the U.S. [Posted on September 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM]
- Wells Fargo's conservative lending looks downright brilliant today [Posted on September 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM]
- Reversal of fortune: As U.S. banks struggle, South Korea promoted to 'developed' status [Posted on September 18, 2008 at 3:39 PM]
- Warner Music reorganizes to drive international growth [Posted on September 18, 2008 at 1:41 PM]
- Top HSBC i-banker heads to medical devices firm [Posted on September 18, 2008 at 12:13 PM]
- Political complexities loom in these emergency bank mergers [Posted on September 18, 2008 at 9:39 AM]
- Google CEO may not wait for DOJ, says 'Time is money' [Posted on September 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM]
- Allied Waste discusses divestitures with DOJ [Posted on September 17, 2008 at 4:59 PM]
- What's in store for Merrill Lynch brokers [Posted on September 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM]
- A saturated job market awaits latest Wall Street casualties [Posted on September 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM]
- Veteran Wipro dealmaker adds to senior executive exodus [Posted on September 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM]
- Samsung's $6B SanDisk offer: Discount or premium? [Posted on September 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM]
- Calling all financial services post-merger integration experts [Posted on September 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM]
- Virgin Mobile USA appoints SK Telecom dealmakers to board [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM]
- Acquired tastes: A wine dealmaker talks strategy [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 2:16 PM]
- Building a winning deal team [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:46 PM]
- From i-banking to corporate development [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM]
- Faces of corporate dealmaking [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:44 PM]
- Making a career of corporate development at J&J [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM]
- Moving to a line business at Pitney Bowes [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM]
- From Shearman & Sterling to the middle of the Bristol-Myers makeover [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM]
- Colonel Tapp and Northrop Grumman's new flight path [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM]
- PepsiCo to Lehman to Campbell Soup [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM]
- On the inside at Brocade, but with roots in consulting [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM]
- Internal networking at ATMI [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:37 PM]
- Finding a faster ship at Glam Media [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM]
- 'Bank of America is taking over the world' [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM]
- Financial business models, instant mergers and the real economy [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM]
- Dow Jones plunges, Dell sees softening global IT demand [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 8:59 AM]
- Flash memory: Industry insights and a surge of partnerships [Posted on September 16, 2008 at 8:39 AM]
- 24,600 to lose jobs as HP integrates EDS [Posted on September 15, 2008 at 5:56 PM]
- Could private equity help revive financial services? [Posted on September 15, 2008 at 1:06 PM]
- Best Buy snaps up Napster, bulks up international unit [Posted on September 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM]
- BofA's model wins the prize. Now for the integration issues [Posted on September 15, 2008 at 9:41 AM]
- Information technology [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 10:22 PM]
- Industrials [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 9:21 PM]
- Healthcare [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 8:20 PM]
- Medtronic Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM]
- Quest Diagnostics Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 5:06 PM]
- Abbott Laboratories [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM]
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM]
- Cardinal Health Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM]
- Hologic Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:57 PM]
- Johnson & Johnson [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM]
- Pfizer Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM]
- Boston Scientific Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:44 PM]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:39 PM]
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM]
- SPX Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:24 PM]
- United Technologies Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM]
- L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:18 PM]
- 3M Co. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM]
- Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:12 PM]
- Danaher Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM]
- Eaton Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 4:05 PM]
- Honeywell International Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM]
- General Electric Co. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:53 PM]
- Symantec Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM]
- VeriSign Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM]
- EMC Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM]
- Fiserv Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:26 PM]
- Intuit Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM]
- Sun Microsystems Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:21 PM]
- IBM Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:18 PM]
- Hewlett-Packard Co. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:09 PM]
- Cisco Systems Inc. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:05 PM]
- Oracle Corp. [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM]
- 10 principles for a winning joint venture [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 2:18 PM]
- PE role in sale of Textron unit to Scotland's Clyde Blowers [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 11:34 AM]
- Richard Branson: 'No Way BA/AA' [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 9:46 AM]
- Have unions grounded another airline deal? [Posted on September 12, 2008 at 8:59 AM]
- Food for strategic thought: Verizon's $23B fiber optic network [Posted on September 11, 2008 at 4:44 PM]
- Samsung isn't likely SanDisk suitor, so who is? [Posted on September 11, 2008 at 11:57 AM]
- Grape Expectations [Posted on September 11, 2008 at 9:24 AM]
- Corporate development careers: Thoughts on deals from a serial acquirer [Posted on September 11, 2008 at 8:06 AM]
- M&A integration in China [Posted on September 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM]
- Merrill Corp. whitepaper: PMI culture shock [Posted on September 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM]
- Yahoo! sets revenue goals too high, hires for fix [Posted on September 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM]
- Netflix looks to alliances to carry it forward [Posted on September 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM]
- Sirius-XM: Integration while the clock ticks [Posted on September 10, 2008 at 9:51 AM]
- Electricite de France ups its bet on U.S. nuclear trend [Posted on September 10, 2008 at 8:30 AM]
- Deal Team: Altria goes smokeless with UST [Posted on September 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM]
- Tracking Nokia's deals in Internet services [Posted on September 9, 2008 at 1:37 PM]
- So what's involved for Vodafone in managing that Verizon Wireless stake? [Posted on September 9, 2008 at 11:41 AM]
- MyTravel gets no money for wrongly blocked deal [Posted on September 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM]
- Report: U.S. consumer staples deals are going strong [Posted on September 9, 2008 at 10:01 AM]
- Deloitte's Scott Wilson on constructing alliances with staying power [Posted on September 8, 2008 at 4:30 PM]
- Mobile solutions provider FushionOne dials in dealmaker [Posted on September 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM]
- Strike is latest hitch in Boeing's move to globalized model [Posted on September 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM]
- Bold moves by Macy's Lundgren [Posted on September 8, 2008 at 9:37 AM]
- Advertisers oppose Yahoo!-Google alliance [Posted on September 8, 2008 at 9:10 AM]
- How India's politics are stalling Tata's small car [Posted on September 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM]
- U.S. drug giants turn East [Posted on September 5, 2008 at 2:07 PM]
- Advice on sending market value up when the economy is down [Posted on September 5, 2008 at 11:51 AM]
- More on Coke's juice deal and China's M&A rules [Posted on September 5, 2008 at 10:52 AM]
- Will Samsung acquire SanDisk? [Posted on September 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM]
- WiMax news: Cablevision and Sprint move ahead [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 4:36 PM]
- TNK-BP dispute settled, for now, as CEO will exit [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM]
- Kellogg snacks on its cracker manufacturer [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM]
- National Geographic to explore mobile initiatives [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 11:40 AM]
- MillerCoors JV: When synergies start a legal fight [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 11:07 AM]
- Integration challenges for Sirius-XM [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM]
- Liberty Entertainment: Why track when you can spin? [Posted on September 4, 2008 at 8:34 AM]
- P&G grows haircare unit, buys company that targets thinning hair [Posted on September 3, 2008 at 3:42 PM]
- Mideast is newest international market for Payless ShoeSource [Posted on September 3, 2008 at 11:15 AM]
- Coke's big China deal will be a regulatory trailblazer [Posted on September 3, 2008 at 10:05 AM]
- More on who's hiring top finance talent [Posted on September 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM]
- After 70 years in idle, Detroit Electric returns [Posted on September 3, 2008 at 9:49 AM]
- InBev eyes South Korea sale to help pay for Bud [Posted on September 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM]
- THQ strategy: Tap Chinese online gaming boom [Posted on September 2, 2008 at 1:11 PM]
- AirTran's new dealmaker faces big challenges in turbulent times [Posted on September 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM]
- Wave of surfing deals continues as Volcom buys in Japan [Posted on September 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM]
- Verwaayen's to-do list at Alcatel-Lucent [Posted on September 2, 2008 at 10:30 AM]
- BP acquires more oil- and gas-rich property as land grab continues [Posted on September 2, 2008 at 8:59 AM]
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