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GlaxoSmithKline plc is shaking up its strategy. According to the company, it is looking to boost growth and reduce risk by diversifying its global operations through M&A and alliances. With generics crowding the market, it's a popular strategy for drugmakers, including Novartis AG and Johnson & Johnson. According to GSK...
Posted on July 23, 2008 11:28 AM
The deal market for beer is particularly frothy at the moment. You've got Anheuser-Busch Cos. reportedly looking to Grupo Modelo SAB de CV to help fend off InBev SA, and Foster's Group Ltd. exploring a possible sale or spinoff of its wine business. These deals, though, are part of a global industry consolidation that's been under...
Posted on June 13, 2008 2:05 PM
Like many luxury retailers, Tiffany & Co. is offsetting a decrease in retail sales in the U.S. and Japan by building up it presence in emerging markets such as China and India. Tiffany's first quarter ended with a 12% increase in sales due to strong growth in Asia-Pacific and Europe....
Posted on May 30, 2008 3:10 PM
OK, I'm a little late getting to the April Harvard Business Review. But I still thought I'd mention an article (subscription required) that may strike a chord with strategy and corporate development execs who work with business unit leaders on acquisition possibilities. "Can you say what your strategy is?," by...
Posted on April 22, 2008 11:15 AM
Ernst & Young has released a survey of 95 drug industry executives that shows heightened expectations for chief financial officers. As the industry grapples with slowing sales, tightening regulations, more aggressive generic competition, rapid globalization and a mountain of expiring patents, CFOs are expected to look beyond bean-counting and become...
Posted on March 28, 2008 9:01 AM
It will come as no surprise to readers of CD Forum that many companies are coming to favor bolt-on deals to transformational transactions. Smaller deals are often less risky, can be easier to manage, and provide a fast and cost-effective means of...
Posted on March 6, 2008 8:56 AM
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...
Posted on February 28, 2008 4:33 PM
We've been keeping up with beverage giant Coca-Cola Co., telling you about its deals (Honest Tea, Glaceau, etc.) and corporate strategy. But make no mistake: The company thinks it can meet its long-term growth goals (revenue growth of 5% to 6% is one) organically. In this report, chief financial officer...
Posted on February 22, 2008 5:33 PM
Acquisitions have long been important to eBay Inc. And with $7.6 billion in revenue last year but slowing growth in its core auction business, the company will continue to emphasize them. Right in the center of that effort is Lorraine McDonough, vice president of corporate development, who led the $1.5...
Posted on February 19, 2008 3:08 PM
ABB Ltd. chief executive Fred Kindle is leaving the Swiss power and automation technology firm because of "irreconcilable differences about how to lead the company." Kindle, who joined the firm in September 2004 and took over as president and CEO in January 2005, returned ABB to profitability after it...
Posted on February 13, 2008 3:49 PM
Finland's Nokia Corp. certainly has the cash (with net sales of 51.1 billion euros ($74 billion) in 2007) to put up a monstrous bid to challenge Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Inc. But would it make sense? Stephen Wellman of Information Week has come up with five reasons...
Posted on February 7, 2008 4:38 PM
It could be a very long time before Microsoft Corp. is able to complete its proposed $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Inc. But the software giant may have already made a key mistake that could hamper a smooth integration: failing to sufficiently describe what a combined Micro-hoo would look like...
Posted on February 6, 2008 4:28 PM
Hard-charging, no-nonsense dealmaking certainly has its place in corporate development. But according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers' report, those dealmakers with a softer touch may ultimately achieve greater deal success.
Posted on February 5, 2008 1:49 PM
Motorola Inc. said its CEO Greg Brown is stepping in to take direct control of the mobile-device business from Stu Reed, who had been running the unit only since last summer. Reed will remain with the company. Motorola previously announced it is considering a restructuring of the troubled business...
Posted on February 4, 2008 6:09 PM
For good reason, much of the coverage of the court battle between John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. and Barry Diller of IAC/InteractiveCorp has focused on the outsize personalities involved and the bitterness of the dispute between the two erstwhile allies. But this is also a case of two hyper-clever corporate...
Posted on January 30, 2008 9:46 AM
Peter Klein helped Jim Kilts turn around and then sell Nabisco and Gillette. But those are just two of the high points in his long and eventful career as a consumer-products strategist and dealmaker.
Posted on June 15, 2007 5:30 PM
Michael Frankel unmasks the faces that get deals done by diving deep into the responsibilities of the corporate dealmakers and others.
Posted on June 15, 2007 4:10 PM
Keeping a major acquisition moving toward the goals the transaction was designed to achieve is a challenge. It takes decisions and cooperation from many segments of both organizations over months or even years and requires surmounting many distractions, temptations and impediments. The complexity confronting those in charge of the M&A...
Posted on June 15, 2007 3:33 PM
CFO Nelson Chai is driving the NYSE's deals as the exchange tries to win in an era of consolidation and change.
Posted on April 15, 2007 7:02 AM
Is it different this time? Sure it is. There are clear distinctions to be made between the global M&A market of 2006, when deal volume reached $4.06 trillion, and that of 2000, when the previous record of $3.33 trillion was set. One difference you see at a glance: The...
Posted on February 16, 2007 2:10 AM
Middle-market merger and acquisition activity surged in 2006 as more and more companies made acquisitions an integral part of their growth strategy. Dollar volume in U.S. M&A activity topped $1.2 trillion in the year that just ended, a record. And according to a recent analysis by Deloitte & Touche...
Posted on February 16, 2007 1:47 AM
Sarbanes-Oxley forces acquirers to improve their financial integration - but the benefits go far beyond enabling executives to sign off on results.
Posted on October 15, 2006 6:47 PM
The potentially disruptive technologies may be a decade or more in the future. But Xerox is exploring them through strategic R&D collaborations.
Posted on February 15, 2006 4:05 PM
Department stores no longer seem to work as local businesses. Federated's Terry Lundgren has bet $16 billion he can make them work nationally.
Posted on December 15, 2005 5:21 PM
When an established wine company wants a new brand to strengthen its portfolio, it is often easier to buy than blend. It can take years to produce a quality vineyard, and even when bottles are on store shelves, new wines face such illustrious competition as Château Lafite Rothschild, Stag's...
Posted on December 15, 2005 4:36 PM
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