Playing the percentages
Article Abstract:
There were few really successful merger or acquisition deals in the UK marketing services sector in the first half of the 1990s, according to a survey compiled by WKS Results. Most deals were only undertaken in the hope of preventing the financial collapse of the vendor, and some were completed at very low prices. Profit-based purchase prices are now beginning to re-emerge, but there are still doubts about future income growth. There is more finance for acquisitions becoming available, but few companies are interested in making large purchases.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1995
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Going hostile can cost you less
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It has been widely assumed for many years in the UK that a company making a hostile takeover bid will have to pay more for the target company than on making an agreed bid. However, this view has been challenged by LEK, which has published a review of the merger and acquisition market in 1996. The number of deals undertaken in 1996 remained stable from 1995, but the total value of deals declined from 67.7 billion pounds sterling to 56.9 billion pounds sterling. There was a strong rise in the number of bids for private companies.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1997
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Boom time is back
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Baring Brothers achieved the highest total value figure in the UK public takeover league table, amounting to 16.8 billion from eight deals in 1995. NM rothschild, Goldman Sachs and Schroders secured fourth, sixth and eighth places respectively through utility deals. There was 67.7 billion pounds sterling of completed UK takeovers in 1995.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1996
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