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The list of measures Starbuck Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) is taking to right its path continues to grow. In the face of a sharp cutback in consumer spending and increasing competition from McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD) and Dunkin Donuts, the ubiquitous coffee franchise in the past year has made hundreds of layoffs, closed...
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:40 PM
Some food companies are feeling pinched, but one business in the U.K. sees a sweet profit in the downturn. The Courtyard Shop at Mains of Taymouth has created Credit Crunch Cookies. The tins of shortbread chunky chocolate chip cookies cost $8.00.A bit pricey for cookies. But unemployed bankers can probably...
Posted on February 26, 2009 4:23 PM
One benefit of a sluggish M&A market is the opportunity it affords corporate development executives to fine-tune their internal deal operation. There are plenty of books available to help dealmakers do just that, and one of the most recent is "Beyond the deal: Mergers & acquisitions that achieve breakthrough performance...
Posted on October 20, 2008 10:36 AM
As readers of this site know well, strategic alliances often fall into the category of necessary evil. They are a pain to negotiate and manage, but they are an absolute requirement for many companies into today's global economy. In this edition of Inside the Deal, I talked with Scott Wilson,...
Posted on September 8, 2008 4:30 PM
Seeking to further expand its home infusion pharmacy division, Walgreen Co. will acquire Express Scripts Inc.'s CuraScript Infusion Pharmacy Inc. for an undisclosed amount. CuraScript provides IV treatments for immune deficiency, chemotherapy and pain management. Express Scripts divested CuraScript because it was a noncore business. CuraScript will be integrated into...
Posted on June 10, 2008 1:43 PM
IDT Corp. is best known for its calling card and Internet phone operations, but chairman Howard Jonas has explored a number of businesses. The latest is oil shale production. IDT announced that it has taken a 75% stake in EGL Oil Shale LLC on Tuesday. EGL is one of three...
Posted on January 22, 2008 5:42 PM
The January Harvard Business Review (subscription required) has a provocative piece by innovation guru Clay Christensen and a couple of colleagues. Titled "Innovation Killers: How financial tools destroy your capacity to do new things," the article is not about acquisitions, but the arguments are relevant to M&A. One...
Posted on January 3, 2008 12:54 PM
More than 100,000 spectators packed the grandstands and infield at Churchill Downs on May 5 to watch as Street Sense followed in the hoofprints of Aristides, who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. The Derby is by a long shot the biggest day of the year for the...
Posted on June 15, 2007 5:20 PM
Corporate dealmakers typically have a dual set of responsibilities: helping business units do deals and enforcing corporate strategy. When those objectives don't line up, corp dev execs can find themselves saying no to deal opportunities that business leaders are firmly behind. John Zieser, vice president of corporate development, general counsel...
Posted on December 15, 2006 8:49 PM
Collaborating in standards groups is expensive, time-consuming, frustrating and often worth it. Here's how one makes it work.
Posted on August 15, 2006 12:35 PM
Too many companies continue to get acquisitions backwards, reacting to opportunities instead of actively screening them. Time for a fresh approach.
Posted on April 15, 2006 7:05 PM
You've seen it before in banking and telecom. Regulatory change sets the stage for the reordering of an entire industry, seemingly presenting corporate leaders with a stark choice: Buy or be bought. Now the scenario looks to be playing out once again in the utility business. In the last...
Posted on October 15, 2005 3:08 PM
Intel Corp. launched its New Business Initiative technology incubator in 1998 with the intent of spinning out startups from its R&D labs. But the company decided soon after that spin-ins would be easier to manage and would create more value for Intel, according to NBI general manager Angela Biever. A...
Posted on June 15, 2005 5:19 PM
Most big companies now have multiple alliances. Relatively few have thought strategically about their choice of role in those networks.
Posted on April 15, 2005 3:10 PM
Eli Lilly and Co. spent $2.4 billion on life-science R&D last year, exploring everything from antisense technology to synthetic exendin-4. But the biggest experiment under way at the company isn't taking place in a lab or a clinic. And the results of that experiment - highly promising so far...
Posted on August 15, 2004 5:45 PM
Cemex SA de CV, the global cement and ready-mix concrete producer, has plants and customers all over the world. Nowadays many of those customers can pull their trucks up to the local Cemex depot, punch a button and load up with cement. The system saves time for customers, who no...
Posted on February 15, 2004 6:45 PM
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