Advantages And Impacts Of Mergers And Acquisitions In Nigeria

Mergers and acquisitions have become a growing trend for companies to inorganically grow a business within its particular industry. There are many goals that companies may be looking to achieve by doing this, but the main reason is to guarantee long-term and profitable growth for their business. Companies have to keep up with a rapidly increasing global market and increased competition. With the struggle for competitive advantage becoming stronger and stronger, it is almost essential to achieve these mergers. Through research I will attempt to dissect the best practices for achieving merger success.

A merger is a partial or total combination of two separate business firms and forming of a new one. There are predominantly two kinds of mergers: partial and complete. Partial merger usually involves the combination of joint ventures and inter-corporate stock purchases. Complete mergers are results in blending of identities and the creation of a single succeeding firm. (Hicks, 2012, p 491). Mergers in the healthcare sector, particularly horizontal hospital mergers wherein two or more hospitals merge into a single corporation, are increasing both in frequency and importance. (Gaughan, 2002). This paper is an attempt to study the impact of the merger of two competing healthcare organization and will also attempt to propose appropriate

It is believed that at the root of any business strategic merger is to expand. This expansion could be in the form of a larger operations leveraging resources, enhanced opportunities or too simply unite with another business to reduce expenses. Ford and Volvo explored the option of teaming up in hop of lowering manufacturing cost.

A merger is basically a deal that unites two existing companies into one company. This is usually done to expand a company’s reach, expansion into new segments or simply to gain market share. There are different types of mergers that exist as a result of the different reasons that companies might have to merge. The 5 main types include:

there are three sorts of mergers: horizontal mergers, vertical mergers and combined. A horizontal merger is an amalgamation between two firms possibly dynamic in similar market at similar level of activity e.g. between two insurance firms whnventory networkile a vertical merger includes firms working at various levels of chain of supply e.g. an insurance firm obtaining a

Mergers and acquisition plays an important role in survival/vitalization of a corporation in today’s market. It continues to be a breakthrough strategy for improving innovation of a company’s product or services, market share, share price etc.

Merger refers to the combination of two or more companies into a single company where one continues to exist, while the other loses to its corporate existence. The survivor acquires all the assets as well as liabilities of the merger company.

There are many companies and organizations that work in a similar manner and in a similar industry. Given the opportunity, merging alike organizations could lead to a prosperous economic effect. Without mergers many of the most well known brands and companies won’t be where they are today.

Merger: “A merger is a combining of two or more companies to form a new company”. An example of a merger is the merging of JDS Fitel Inc. and Uniphase Corp. in 1999 to form JDS Uniphase.

The paper differs from others as it will provide insight and evaluation into which event during the merger process had the largest effect and identify whether this was the same for both firms, especially since the merger was undertaken in a tough regulatory environment which contains many “hurdles” (). The results of this paper could be attributed to other firms in the industry or, potentially, to other industries with similar regulatory structures.

A merger is a strategy where two companies agree to combine. Mergers are popular among

Mergers occur when one business firm buys or acquires another business firm (the acquired firm) and the combined firm maintains the identity of the acquiring firm. Business firms merge for a variety of reasons, both financial and non-financial. There are a number of types of mergers. Horizontal and non-horizontal are just two of many types.

The terms merger or amalgamation have not been defined in the 1956 Act, though this voluminous piece of legislation contains 69 definitions in Section 2. The concept paper recently issued by the Ministry of Company Affairs, the fate of which is still unknown, contained 100 such definitions but still stopped short of defining merger or amalgamation. The terms merger and amalgamation are synonyms and the term ‘amalgamation’, as per Concise Oxford Dictionary, Tenth Edition, means, ‘to combine or unite to form one organization or structure’.

Amalgamation is the process where two or more companies dissolve their identity to form a new entity. For example, merger of Brooke Bond and Lipton has formed a new entity called Brooke Bond Lipton India Limited.

In merger: The combining of two or more companies, generally by offering the stockholders of one company securities in the acquiring company in exchange for the surrender of their stocks. Two companies become one, decison is mutual. They are not idependent anymore