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Market research firm study shows companies spent more than $1 trillion on acquisitions in 2005
February 27th, 2006
To understand how some of the world's best companies successfully manage post mergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance, benchmarking firm Best Practices, LLC studied more than 50 top companies and determined that in 2005, companies spent more than $1 trillion to buy other companies, up from $871 billion in 2004 and $467 billion in 2002. If you consider the above numbers from research firm Dealogic in conjunction with the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity thus far in 2006 - Guidant accepting a $27 billion bid from Boston Scientific and Disney announcing its $7.5 billion buy of Pixar -it appears that M&A activities will explode this year. The...
Source: Pharma Business Week (2006-02-27)
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