Unit 1 - Mergers and acquisition

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What is a merger?

an agreement by shareholders and managers of two businesses to form a new larger firm

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What is an acquisition?

when a company buys the majority stake of another company and becomes the controlling owner

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What is a hostile?

When a bigger company buys a smaller company in the face of resistance from the smaller company's management

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Horizontal integration

A business takes over or merges with another company in within the same industry and at the same stage of production

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Backwards vertical integration

A business firm takes over or merges with a supplier

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Forward vertical integration

A business firm takes over or merges with a supplier

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Conglomerate integration (diversification)

Integration occurs between firms in unrelated industries

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