M&A analysis – Page 9
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Analysis & Features
Imperial Tobacco's US growth is a bold risk
Few doubt that Imperial Tobacco’s US expansion is transformational - whether it’s wholly desirable is more contentious.
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury's and Netto: If you can't beat them, join them
The major grocery retailers have been scratching their heads for some time over what to do about the rise of the discounters. Sainsbury’s now thinks it has got the answer.
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Analysis & Features
Premier Foods looks to power ahead
Premier Foods’ mammoth restructuring effort looks to be nearing the end after it spun off another non-core business.
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Analysis & Features
Activist investors: good guys or bad guys?
In the 1980s activist investors were seen as corporate raiders. Today they’re the rock stars of finance…
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Analysis & Features
As Anglia merges with Midlands has the co-op power shifted?
First Penrith and Scotmid, now Midlands and Anglia: whether defensive or opportunistic, more mergers are surely on the car…