The empire builders who are only happy getting larger by acquisition should be retired with a copper parachute.
Most big German companies these days are focusing on their core business and spinning off units, rather than building by acquisition.
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Merloni grew both organically and by acquisition, buying Indesit in 1987, Stinol, Russia's top brand, in 1999, and Hotpoint in Britain last year.
Saunders believes Tesco will be successful in the U.S. because it intends to grow organically, rather than by acquisition, and can gradually learn from its mistakes.
Of course, many of those publishers are themselves seeking to create games just as greedy and just as brutal as Farmville, give or take, usually by acquisition of companies like pre-IPO Zynga.
It is no excuse either for the HP board to have gambled its future on growth by acquisition to stem the way its old-line core businesses, like storage and enterprise software, were collapsing.
That would be no more intrusive than the current American rule stopping any one bank gaining more than a 10% market share of deposits by acquisition, a limit already touched by Bank of America.
The company began as a cooperative for selling walnuts, and has expanded by acquisition, acquiring Pop Secret from General Mills (GIS) in 2008 and Kettle Foods in 2010 to add to its Diamond culinary nuts and Emerald Nuts brands.
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The Justice Department usually defers to the Pentagon on whether mergers of big military contractors raise competitive concerns, and the current position of Pentagon policymakers as expressed in a February 9 speech by acquisition chief Ashton Carter is that mergers of the biggest military suppliers are not welcome.
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Shares of Mosaic, a maker of fertiliser, have been swept by one acquisition rumour after another.
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There really are people who are motivated by the acquisition of power over their fellow humans.
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The health care segment's performance has been helped by the acquisition of some brands from GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
This was followed in 2001 by the acquisition of Sunglass Hut, the world's leading retailer of sunglasses.
Although overstretched by the acquisition of BMI and two smaller airlines, Lufthansa is strong enough to weather the storm better than most.
The increased scale created by an acquisition can also provide greater leverage when negotiating terms with suppliers, which can further lower operating costs.
Though U.S. sales remained negative in 2010, the trend reversed in 2011, particularly helped by the acquisition of Sinful Colors in March 2011.
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He also believes Walgreen has increasingly shown its ability to compete with its competitor's business model, as exemplified by its acquisition of health care provider firm Take Care.
Priceline has a strong foothold in the high-margin hotel bookings segment outside the U.S., facilitated by the acquisition of Bookings.com (for European markets) and Agoda.com (for Asian markets).
The simple fact is, if investors believe that the value-added by the acquisition will be beyond the premium paid, even the acquirer could see a nice lift in share value.
Backed by the acquisition of VIA Travel, the company witnessed a 14% y-o-y increase in air ticket revenues though it does not anticipate the positive trend to continue in the future.
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Longtime rival Credit Suisse, aided by its acquisition of America's DLJ Direct, is offering both an online and a "personal banker" service, but its target market extends to slightly less prosperous customers.
Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.
Once a humming growth-by-acquisition engine, the Freeport, Ill.
"Daniels will hope that those investors don't start to have serious doubts about whether he is the right man to attempt to rebuild a bank that many would say has been seriously weakened by the acquisition of HBOS, " our correspondent says.
In fact, there was plenty, although all the usual caveats apply: AOL is still losing share of the ad market to fast-growing Facebook and Google, and year-over-year comparisons are skewed by the acquisition of the Huffington Post in February 2011.
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Your player was utterly crippled, somehow, by his acquisition of an incredibly powerful weapon, and so you press one button over and over until the game appeared to end before jetting off to the present for a modern-day platforming section so long and boring it felt like a tech demo of a jump button.
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In particular, there must be no repetition of the sort of actions taken earlier this year by Pentagon acquisition officials that resulted in the precipitous termination, without consulting the White House or the affected military services, of a key Navy anti-missile program needed to defend the fleet and deployed forces ashore against shorter-range ballistic missile threats.
Aguirre says his firing was politically motivated and came after he tried to interview current Morgan Stanley Chief Executive JohnMackJohn Mack in his investigation into insider trading by Pequot Capital in shares of Heller Financial before its acquisition by General Electric in 2001.
The decision by the Fed to offer emergency liquidity to Bear Stearns and to facilitate its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase had less to do with the size of Bear's balance-sheet than with its central role in markets for credit-default and interest-rate swaps.
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