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Archive for November, 2009

Lessons To Be Learned in Strategic Acquisitions

Its acquisition of the assets associated with Nortel (News – Alert) was at a high price (over $760 million) for something they actually dominate.

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Dress Barn completes acquisition of Tween Brands

Suffern, NY-based Dress Barn completed its $412.7 million acquisition of Tween and its 905 Justice stores Wednesday. The stock portion of the deal called

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Oracle To Meet With EU To Push Forward On Acquisition

Oracle may be looking to meet with European Union regulators early next month in a move to speed up the approval process for its pending acquisition of Sun

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MEMC closes acquisition of sunedison

As part of the acquisition, the larger company said it granted a bonus 3.9 million in shares to 224 of sunedison's total 300 managers and employers in

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Ciena buys Nortel unit to expand footprint


Ciena says the acquisition of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks will help it build a bigger global reach. (Nancy Andrews/the Washington Post) By Mike

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EU may block Oracle’s Sun acquisition

The US Justice Department gave antitrust approval to the acquisition in August. Gaye Hudson, an Oracle spokeswoman in the UK, declined to comment in an

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Google to beef up display ads with acquisition of Teracent

Google, in an effort to bring more value to its display advertising business, has announced plans to acquire Teracent. In a blog post, Google explained its

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Net1 Announces Acquisition of MediKredit Integrated Healthcare Solutions

Management believes that the acquisition is strategically important for the following reasons: – MediKredit expands Net1's position as the leading


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Applied Materials’ Semitool Acquisition: The Best Deal It Ever Made

Over the past dozen years I have been critical of Applied Materials' (Nasdaq:AMAT) acquisition and new product strategies. In my humble opinion,


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Miller Diversified Corporation Completes Its Acquisition of Smoke Anywhere USA …

Miller Diversified Corporation (PINKSHEETS: MILR) has recently completed its acquisition of Smoke Anywhere USA, Inc., a leading marketer and distributor of


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Delhaize Group Closes the Acquisition of Greek Retailer Koryfi

This highly complementary acquisition will reinforce the position of Alfa-Beta in Thrace (Northeastern Greece) where it currently has a limited presence.


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MEMC Completes SunEdison Acquisition

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., a provider of silicon wafers, has completed its acquisition of Sun Edison LLC,


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Riverdale Capital Completes Acquisitions

Also, through the acquisition of EDI, an additional site, www.exnemsims.com has become another property for the Company. Though a revenue generating website


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China Holdings Acquisition Corp: The Stock Can Move Up 50%

China Holdings Acquisition Corp (HOL) is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) that is purchasing a Chinese ceramic tile manufacturer known as

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Inmarsat Completes Segovia Inc Acquisition

… a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announced Monday the acquisition of the business and assets of Segovia, Inc.,

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Great Basin Gold: A Prime Acquisition Candidate

This is the second part of a two part article on Gold mining acquisition. In the first part, we explored some ideas of Gold production and the replacement

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RIL confirms acquisition plan for LyondellBasell

If closed, this acquisition deal will be one of the largest by any Indian company overseas. So far, the largest acquisition of an overseas firm was Tata

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ANZ completes acquisition of RBS unit

ANZ Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) has completed its acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc's (RBS) Philippines unit and will complete its acquisition


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HTW looking at acquisitions in South India

"We plan to acquire a company…we are currently in talks with a group of firms to explore the opportunities for acquisition," HTW's chairman and managing


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Telepresence Acquisitions Booming

In the meantime, the mother of all video communications acquisitions continues to play out as Cisco works to gain approval of its $3.4 billion offer to

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Buffett Borrows for Rail Acquisition

B – Snapshot Report), announced on Thursday to borrow $8 billion of loan for the acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNI – Analyst

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Hi-Shear Technology’s shareholders approve acquisition by Chemring Group

The stockholders of of Hi-Shear Technology Corporation have approved the company's proposed acquisition by Chemring Group PLC.

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Motorola Buys RadioFrame’s iDEN Business

The acquisition will enhance its push-to-talk technology delivered over an integrated Digital Enhanced Network, Motorola says. 

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BD Completes $275M Acquisition of HandyLab

Becton Dickinson has completed its $275 million acquisition of molecular diagnostics firm HandyLab


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CA completes acquisition of NetQoS

CA said that this acquisition strengthens its ability to help enterprise IT organisations and service providers deliver reliable, flexible and


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P&G open to ‘major’ acquisitions

P&G's recent acquisitions have been relatively small, such as its purchase of the Zirh shaving brand and the Art of Shaving brand and retail stores.


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Energy Transfer Seeks Acquisitions, Approached Copano

Dallas-based Energy Transfer, which announced or made more than two dozen acquisitions from 2001 to 2007, has focused more recently on growing through

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Grainger Boosted by Acquisitions

The company benefited from a 2% positive contribution from the businesses in Japan and India, 1% from the acquisition of Imperial Supplies and 2% from

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SunLife CEO eyeing acquisitions in the US

1 priority in terms of acquisition opportunities if we found something attractive here in the US— that's where we are further away from having the benefits

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Sims Selling $436 Million in Shares for Acquisitions

Sims initially will use money to pay debt and enable the company to speed acquisitions and fund capital spending. Since buying Metal Management in March

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E*Trade Acquisition Chatter Heats Up

If E*Trade brings in a CEO with experience in coordinating mergers and acquisitions that will be a very good sign. This really is a blockbuster opportunity

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Cascadia’s Internet Division Announces Its Latest Acquisition

In announcing the acquisition, Cascadia's president and CEO Mr. Maherali stated, "We will continue to invest in Internet businesses, like nameringers,

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TMT SUMMIT: Capgemini CEO: Co Eyes Acquisitions In US, Asia

…  chief executive officer Thursday said the company is looking at acquisitions in the US and Asia as it wants to grow its presence outside of Europe.

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Simon Hires Advisers to Consider General Growth Acquisition Possibilities

In that same call, David Simon said the company was evaluating a number of domestic acquisition opportunities that wouldn't close until 2010.


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Stolt-Nielsen SA Announces Acquisition of the LPG Carrier Althea Gas

Stolt-Nielsen SA (SNSA) (Oslo Børs: SNI) today announced that it has agreed to acquire through its subsidiary Stolt-Nielsen Gas Ltd. the 82557 cbm LPG


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Rye Patch Arranges the Acquisition of Carlin Trend Gold Resources

The Ren acquisition will be an important milestone for the Company and will raise Rye Patch to a new level in the mining sector," declared William C. (Bill)

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Mitsubishi To Raise $11B in Advance of Morgan Stanley Japan Acquisition

By Tiernan Ray Japan's Mitshubishi UJ Financial Group (MTU) said it will raise $11.2 billion in new shares in advance of its purchase of the Morgan

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Seacliff Construction up on acquisition

Canem Systems and Dominion Construction, the Broda acquisition is nonetheless a fine strategic move and a great use of cash, the analyst added.

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TMT SUMMIT:Millicom Mulling Several Acquisition Opportunities

By Jason Sinclair BARCELONA (Dow Jones)–Millicom International Cellular SA (MICC) is studying different acquisitions in Latin America and Africa,

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GNAS: Completes Acquisition of Go Green USA, LLC

Ganas Corporation (GNAS) announced the completion of its acquisition of 100% of Go Green USA LLC, an importer and distributor of a 100% Electric Sport

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