Quotes about mergers
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We're beginning to see greater levels of mergers as the economy improves and as executives that have been reticent get more comfortable with their own business.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish. Carlos Ghosn
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We have to get these interest rate increases behind us and the Fed did hold off this last time, but I think there's still a possibility of another rate increase later in the year. And that's weighing on investor's minds. Earnings have slowed down a little bit. The interest rate increases to date have had an effect and we're seeing some earnings disappointments at some companies and that has investors concerned. But on the other hand, we have the mergers and acquisitions that tend to buoy up the prices in whatever sectors affected from one day to the next and that will keep investors interested in stocks certainly. John Carey
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I worked here for 28 years and this is a shame. I've seen lots of mergers and theaters come and go. But I wanted to take one last look before they destroy it.
bunch mergers
When you do a bunch of mergers you make compromises.
cable deals expect fewer higher mergers seen
We can expect to see fewer deals and higher prices, just as we've seen with the mergers of cable companies. Chris Murray
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There is a huge amount of consolidation in the industry, and that consolidation is smaller companies all becoming larger through mergers or acquisitions or any kind of arrangement. So what's really going on is there's a huge pressure to lower their costs.
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We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.
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We're in the middle of a wave of mergers and acquisitions. It's one of the essential motors for stocks this year.
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We are finding that mergers do not appear to play the dominant role in star formation, because we see normal-looking, undisturbed galaxies that are undergoing large amounts of star formation.
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What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies.
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Having spent several years on Wall Street specializing in mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Kim brings with him extensive trading experience. John Kim
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I am very concerned about the oligopoly that has developed. The mergers could lead to a significant amount of price stagnation for business customers.
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BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.
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China realizes that the world is watching and it must play fair in the implementation of the Anti-monopoly Law, ... Given the long history of state-managed enterprises and protectionism, it still is going to take time for China to fully accept cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
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(China) hasn't created a very good environment for mergers and acquisitions.
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If China lets multinationals' malicious mergers and acquisitions go ahead freely, China can only act as labor in the global supply chain.
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Given his experience with mergers there is a lot of speculation that he will go in there and do a big deal, ... but we're a bit skeptical of that. Mark Thomas
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It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.
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I think we are seeing a second round of layoffs if you will in some large corporations. We're also seeing a lot of mergers and acquisitions. And the other thing that we're seeing is: corporations putting their capital where they can get the best return, and often that is outside the U.S. for low wage jobs... inside the U.S. for high wage jobs.
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I think that in the long-term care market all companies are fair game for mergers at this point. All of these companies are trying to get their cost structures down to cope with the changes taking place in Medicare.
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Launching the new partner program less than one year after one of the largest software mergers in history is a testament to Symantec's commitment to its partners and our unswerving focus on delivering both the programs and infrastructure to help ensure our mutual success in the market. Our partners are a valuable part of our company, and they are key to delivering value to customers. This first phase of the new partner program will provide partners with a simple, complete framework for doing business with Symantec. Julie Parrish
work-out mergers majority
The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value. Barry Ritholtz
airline mergers problems
I see it as a lose-lose situation. Integration problems with airline mergers are legendary.
moving mergers speed
Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency. Bill Vaughan
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Our vision of the future is a complete deregulation of everything from routes and airline access rights, all the way through to changing ownership and control regulations which would allow mergers and acquisitions, Richard Branson
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Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry. While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition. Joel Klein
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Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software,
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Friendly mergers can really derive leverage and value for the shareholders and for the employees. Both companies will work together to plan an integration strategy, and the value of a merger really only comes in the post-merger integration.
dangerous leadership mergers
Leadership that's reliant on mergers and acquisitions is dangerous leadership.
approving clearly mergers
More (conditions) would clearly have been better, ... This is better than approving these mergers without any conditions. Michael Copps
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Obviously, under this approach, the scope for mergers would be far greater in metropolitan areas than regional areas, where there are many markets that would already be close to, or at, this threshold,
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What we have pointed out is that we often hear promises of greater resources devoted to R&D (as a result of a merger), but there is absolutely no proof that in the mergers over the last three to five years that that has occurred.