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Case Study On Bharti Airtel

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Table of Contents Introduction 2 Parties Involved 3 MTN Group 3 Bharti Airtel Ltd. 3 Parent Companies 3 Bharti Enterprises 3 SingTel 3 Commercial Considerations 4 The Bharti – MTN Saga Introduction Bharti Airtel and the MTN Group restarted their merger talks on 25 May, 2009. The communication started after a gap of almost an year when the merger talks had come to a roadblock and there was an intense situation of deadlock between the two. About the company credentials, Bharti Airtel is one of the largest Indian telecom providers while at that time MTN had a stronghold in 21 countries spread across Middle East and Africa region. Bharti Airtel and MTN Group extended their exclusive talks with an aim to merge their operations so as to create the world's third telecom company. The objective of the merger talks was to achieve a complete merger between these two telecom companies which if successful would had resulted in MTN's hold on 36% stake in the Indian telecom company while Bharti Airtel would had inherited 49% stake in MTN. Off late the …show more content…

It was founded by Sunil Bharti Mittal in the year 1976 and has operations in 20 different nations across Africa and Asia. Bharti Enterprises owns various businesses spanning across retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services. Bharti Enterprises is the holding company of Airtel and has 52.7% shareholding in the Bharti Airtel. SingTel Singapore Telecommunications Limited, is a Singapore based telecommunications company, is commonly known as SingTel. With a total mobile subscriber base of 477 million customers from its own operations and regional associates in 25 countries across the world, it is one of the largest mobile network operators in Singapore and significant operations in Australia. SingTel has direct stake in Airtel and holds 15.57% shareholding in the Bharti Airtel. Commercial

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