Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions Articles

Alcoa is raising new capital to help the company pay for its previously announced acquisition of the Firth Rixson business.
Many investors still want to consider the growth scenario for SodaStream, but perhaps the best way to consider SodaStream for new, would-be investors is as a value stock.
Microsoft's acquisition of Mojan, maker of Minecraft, has now been confirmed.
Vail Resorts just announced that it is acquiring the Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah.
ThinkstockJDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU) is soon to exist no more, at least not in its historic sense that investors have known about since and before the tech bubble burst in 2000 to 2001....
General Mills has stepped up to the plate and announced that it is acquiring Annie's, one of the more prominent natural and organic food companies.
The death of a founder of a big company comes with sadness to most people who know the company well or who know that founder personally. There is another side to what can occur inside a company upon...
A new report from the energy research team at UBS points out that there has been little merger and acquisition activity in the energy sector.
General Electric has announced that Electrolux is paying some $3.3 billion to acquire the GE Appliances unit.
Salesforce.com is making new venture investments at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
For Meredith, the question of a spin-out is the same as for other media companies that have decided to separate.
PetSmart is not going to be taken private, or so the analyst team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes.
The announcement earlier Friday morning that Family Dollar had rejected Dollar General’s latest offer does not appear to have quelled Dollar General’s ardor at all.
A Family Dollar press release issued Friday goes into substantial detail about why the much smaller offer from Dollar Tree is better for its shareholders.
Is it time for some of the smaller, more agile software companies to end up as targets for bigger companies looking to add additional silos of products to their current offerings?