Posted on June 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Detroit Breakdown | Integration
Tagged: jaguar land rover , tata motors ltd.

When India's Tata Motors Ltd. bought Jaguar Land Rover from Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) a little more than a year ago for $2.4 billion, the economic storm clouds were already gathering. So on Sunday, when chairman Ratan Tata and other executives officially launched the British brands in India, the hoopla...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Crisis On Wall Street | Integration
Tagged: Bank of America , Brian Moynihan , integration , Ken Lewis , Merrill Lynch

Bank of America Corp.'s (NYSE:BAC) integration of Merrill Lynch & Co. continues at pace, despite chief executive Ken Lewis' numerous treks to Capitol Hill, stress test results, high-level talent defections and other distractions. In an interview with American Banker, integration leader Brian Moynihan admits external pressures are adding to the...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Best Practices | Case Studies | Corporate Strategy | Integration | Trends
Tagged: Rackable Systems , Silicon Graphics Inc.

Distressed deals have been on the rise, numbers from The Deal Pipeline show. One of those transactions corporate dealmakers may find interesting involves server maker Rackable Systems Inc., which had only eight days last month to close its $42.5 million acquisition of computing legend Silicon Graphics Inc., which it...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 25, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Integration
Tagged: oracle corp , Sun Microsystems

According to SiliconBeat, Tuesday's quarterly earnings call with execs from Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) revealed strong earnings but not much about the software giant's plans for Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), which it agreed in April to buy for $7.4 billion. Big question: How serious is Oracle about Sun's hardware business?Following the...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Growth Strategy | Integration
Tagged: CVS Caremark Corp. , Rite Aid Corp , Walgreen Co.

Quarterly results from No. 3 pharmacy chain Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE:RAD) and Walgreen Co. (NYSE:WAG) give us a chance to update the three-way race among the country's largest drugstore chains. As we detailed in a magazine column in May, this one is a corporate strategy classic. Each of the three...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Integration
Tagged: Electronic Data Systems Corp. , Hewlett Packard Co.

When Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) announced its $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp. in May 2008, we were among those who wondered about the decision to keep EDS as a separate brand, headquartered in Plano, Texas, and run by EDS CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer, who would report to HP CEO...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 19, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Integration
Tagged: j.m.smucker co. , procter & gamble

When you hear the phrase "transformational deal," you don't usually think of a conservative, family-run company that's been in the food business for more than 100 years. But by several measures that's what the acquisition of Folger's coffee last year from Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) has been for the...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Integration
Tagged: FedEx , Kinko's , Mail Boxes Etc. , United Parcel Service

FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) bummed out the stock market Wednesday by posting an $876 million quarterly loss. Overshadowed by the perception of the shipping giant's results as an economic indicator was more bad news about the company's FedEx Office unit, the twice-rebranded Kinko's Inc., which FedEx bought for $2.4 billion in...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 17, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Integration | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances
Tagged: pfizer inc. , wyeth

Wyeth's (NYSE:WYE) head of pharmaceutical research Mikael Dolsten has already accepted a job at Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), which is buying his company for $68 billion, but at an industry conference in San Francisco on Wednesday he barely mentioned his new boss as he touted several drugs in Wyeth's pipeline. In...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 3, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Filed under: Divesting and Restructuring | Information Technology | Integration

Online auctioneer eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) is planning an IPO spinoff of Skype, its disappointing voice-over-Internet-protocol acquisition. CEO John Donahoe says he'd like to make the move in the first half of 2010, though as our Olaf de Senerpont Domis pointed out last week on Dealscape, the deadline is probably a...  Continue reading

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