THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LIX‚ NO. 1 • FEBRUARY 2004 Bondholder Wealth Effects in Mergers and Acquisitions: New Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s MATTHEW T. BILLETT‚ TAO-HSIEN DOLLY KING‚ and DAVID C. MAUER∗ ABSTRACT We examine the wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions on target and acquiring firm bondholders in the 1980s and 1990s. Consistent with a coinsurance effect‚ below investment grade target bonds earn significantly positive announcement period returns. By contrast‚ acquiring firm
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Merger of Union Planters Corporation and Regions Financial Corporation On Friday‚ January 23‚ 2004 Union Planters Corporation and Regions Financial Corporation announced they would merge. This will create the twelfth largest holding company in the United States. This merger was deemed the merger of equals (Hillard‚ 1/26/2004‚ para. 2). The stockholders of both companies overwhelming voted for the merger on June 8‚ 2004 (Morgan‚ 6/17/2004‚ para. 2). On June 17‚ 2004 the merger received approval from
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versailleAOL Time Warner Inc. – A Bad Idea from the Start? 1. What are the opportunities and threats facing AOLTW (PESTEL analysis)? Pestel analysis: | LOCAL | NATIONAL | GLOBAL | POLITICAL | | The antitrust law is rising. | The government wants to have a more powerful control to avoid monopoly. | ECONOMIC | For AOL it was the top of the internet boom. | The economy start to be hard and slow‚ as show the problem that warner is facing. | AOLTW will take the explode of the internet
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I. PEPSI CORPORATION HISTORY The Pepsi-Cola story began in a drugstore in New Bern‚ North Carolina‚ USA in 1896. Caleb Davis Bradham‚ a pharmacist‚ owned a drugstore named Bradham Drug Company in downtown New Bern. Like many of the drug stores at the time‚ Bradham’s store also housed a soda fountain. Here‚ Bradham offered his own soda concoctions which attracted most of the small-town folks. On August 28‚ 1898‚ Bradham invented a new recipe‚ blending kola nut extract‚ vanilla and “rare oils.”
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CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 1 Coca Cola versus Pepsi Cola – The History.................................................................................. 2 Examples of Coca Cola vs Pepsi De-Positioning .......................................................................... 3 Critical Analysis .............................................................................
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Cola vs Pepsi in Bangladesh Executive summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the Pepsi and Coca cola in their customer segmentation models. This method of analysis includes Market Segmentation‚ Market Targeting‚ Market Positioning‚ as well as the Marketing Mix of Pepsi and Coca cola. The research draws attention to the Market segmentation of the both companies‚ while the soft drink industry has probably the widest and deepest customer base in the world and variable of Pepsi and Cola
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INTRODUCTION 1 II. MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS DEFINED 1 III. WHY M&A? 1 A. PERFORMANCE 1 B. MARKET FACTORS 2 C. METHODS 2 IV. ISSUES 2 A. CULTURE AND EMPLOYEES 3 B. LEADERSHIP 3 C. CUSTOMERS 3 D. VEBLEN AND GOODWILL 4 V. MAKING M&A SUCCESSFUL 4 A. COMPANY TYPE 4 B. IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNITIES 5 C. SPEED OF INTEGRATION 5 D. CUSTOMERS 6 E. COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE 6 VI. CONCLUSIONS 6 VII. OBSERVATIONS 8 REFERENCES 9 I. Introduction This paper presents the issues with mergers and acquisitions
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www.ajbms.org ISSN: 2047-2528 Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences Vol. 1 No. 2 [157-165] MERGERS IN BANKING INDUSTRY OF INDIA: SOME EMERGING ISSUES Dr. K.A. Goyal Convener & Head‚ Management Department‚ B.N.P.G. College‚ Udaipur. Vijay Joshi Research Scholar‚ Department of Business Administration‚ UCCMS‚ MLSU‚ Udaipur. ABSTRACT The world of competition is like a jungle where monsters gobble smaller ones therefore one has to be competent enough to win the rivalry. There are
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CASE STUDY - PEPSI: PROMOTING NOTHING QUESTION 1: What markets should Pepsi target for Aquafina? Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola have been competing with each other for many years through numerous taste tests and television ads. One of the ideas they came up with is water. In the early 1990s Evian and Perrier were the brands that dominated the niche and helped establish bottled spring water’s clean‚ healthy image. Pepsi first tried to attack this market with bottled and sparkling water but failed. In
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American Airlines – US Airways Merger Executive Summary The big news of the past few weeks in the travel field was the proposed and almost completed merger of AMR‚ the parent of American Airlines and US Airways. The merger creates the world’s biggest airline in the world. The recent injunction filed by the US Attorney General with the backing of the Government created a problem for the Airlines put a big question mark on whether the deal will go through or not. This white paper refutes the points
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