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Mergers

What is your opinion of a merger? If you say and think a merger is a bad thing then you are not alone. Recently, “ were given a big thumbs down in a poll given to Americans and Canadians.” The definition of a merger is “a combination of two or more businesses to form a single firm.” The cons of greatly outnumber the pros because as companies get larger and larger, people lose jobs, monopolies form, and consumers pay higher prices, resulting in a less competitive and, therefore, less opportune business market.
Is bigger really better? Big might be sometimes better, but companies, corporations and monopolies can get too big. “Some merged companies become so huge that they lose ...

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satisfaction more then just the money they will receive. They know that if they don’t produce well and make people happy then they will go out of business or bought out by a bigger company.
aren’t what I would call the most successful thing in the world either. Lots of don’t last very long or don’t succeed. This past year we had quite a few merger failures. Here are the top 10 Biggest Merger and Acquisition Bloopers of 1999, announced by leading merger consultants.
2. Excite
3. Disney and Infoseek
4. BNP and Bank Paribas
5. Tyco International Ltd. and Binge/Purge
6. Deutsche Telecom and Trouble on the Line
7. American Home Products and Warner Lambert
8. Aetna US Healthcare
9. AutoNation
10. Bank One
These companies all failed for many reasons. The Disney and Infoseek merger failed for the simple fact that the “managers of Infoseek could not get along with Disney.” As these managers quit, the company shares plummeted by 60%. Next we have the BNP and Bank Paribas ...

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Added: 4/9/2006 10:14:15 PM
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