The funds realized will be used to create a cash mountain needed in making strategic acquisitions.
Strategic acquisitions such as Huffington Post and Patch should continue to drive traffic to AOL sites.
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It has for example, just completed two strategic acquisitions, one of PEAK Surgical Inc.
The Glasgow-based firm said it would aim to meet the targets through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.
The third quarter saw PayPal reinforcing its mobile payments segment with strategic acquisitions such as Zong.
Some need to seriously consider strategic acquisitions that will assist them when the economy recovers in the future.
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After holding onto their checkbooks the past few years, corporations unleashed a series of strategic acquisitions in 2010.
Its growth strategy includes organic growth as well as strategic acquisitions to expand its presence in emerging markets.
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Nucor has a number of growth initiatives, including new natural-gas furnace operations, strategic acquisitions and international joint ventures.
In the last two years, it did two strategic acquisitions wherein it acquired Diedrich Coffee in May 2010.
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Recently, Acadia Healthcare has made several strategic acquisitions, including Behavioral Centers of America.
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With some critics pointing to the company's heavy reliance on North America for sales, strategic acquisitions or partnerships make sense.
Dean Perry of West LB Securities Pacific in Tokyo thinks Orix is plenty strong financially to continue making strategic acquisitions and remain competitive.
Large trading corporations, such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo, or large companies, such as DoCoMo, do make strategic acquisitions of established young companies.
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Also unlike the commodity, miners have the ability to cut costs to enhance profits, improve operations to extract more gold from mines, or make strategic acquisitions.
And as profitable as strategic acquisitions can potentially be, various industry studies have shown that about 90% of sales come from customers who have bought your product before.
Lacking stock to use as currency, O'Reilly has been forced to pass on a number of strategic acquisitions for his software division, which makes a Windows-based Web server called WebSite.
Taesik Yoon, editor of the Forbes Growth Investor newsletter, believes that increased sales and a growth strategy based around strategic acquisitions will put HELE in position for continued growth through 2011.
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Its satellite competitor, Dish Network, has made several strategic acquisitions, and even though Dish is currently losing subscribers, its efforts regarding its long-term positioning are notable given the changing industry dynamics.
However, despite the macro-economic, industry and company-specific headwinds we faced in fiscal 2013, investments we made in strategic acquisitions, vendor relationships, and system enhancements further strengthen and better-position Tech Data for the future.
We believe we can do great things with these amazing assets....we have a proven track record of maximizing the value of our strategic acquisitions.... and we're poised to do the same with this one.
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It is important that, as Salesforce.com continues to make strategic acquisitions, it maintains that focus on customer success and does not succumb to the temptation to merely drive revenue growth by cross-selling its existing customers.
However this flexibility also gives Colgate more options to defend itself, for example by raising debt to pursue non-strategic acquisitions in an attempt to avoid takeover bids and lever up its balance sheet to make it less attractive.
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Rather than the big strategic acquisitions made by predecessor Arun Sarin several years ago in emerging markets, Vodafone has recently done little more than increase its stake in a South African telecoms company and merge with Hutchison's 3 Australia.
What we are seeing now is that executives think the most pernicious conditions of a year ago have improved, and they have shifted their focus to more strategic acquisitions, their goal being to drive growth in an otherwise flat market.
We consider free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business that, after the acquisition of property and equipment, including information technology infrastructure and land and buildings, can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business, making strategic acquisitions, and strengthening the balance sheet.
Authoria, which started as a seller of employee benefits software, also drafted a strategic plan for acquisitions.
Costs of revenues reflect increased personnel costs due primarily to increased investment in Patch and other areas of strategic focus including acquisitions made in 2010 and particularly in Q1 2011.
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