Sentence examples for acquisition machines from inspiring English sources

As the trajectories of the shares of other former acquisition machines like Tyco International and General Electric show, this strategy can stumble when companies reach a certain size.

Investors may become cautious, and reduce the value they attach to the acquisition machine's stock.

"AT&T is an acquisition machine and interested in empire preservation if nothing else," said Wieser.

Just look at Cisco — the firm is an efficient merger and acquisition machine.

Bank of America has traditionally been an acquisition machine, imposing its will and cost discipline on the companies it swallows.

It is down to the vision of Sir Martin Sorrell, who borrowed £250,000 to buy a stake in the business and turn it into an acquisition machine.

Kentz, the Irish contractor to the oil, gas and mining industries, started on the back foot when Amec, a practised acquisition machine, came knocking last week.

But if Cisco follows the acquisition machine model, the difficulty in running the company smoothly while mounting ever-larger deals will become increasingly evident.

Still, of course, the art of leaking news of a deal has long been part of the mergers and acquisition machine.

In 1998, it was taken over by Travelers, a financial firm that was best thought of as an acquisition machine for its boss, Sandy Weill.

It would be hard to find a bigger contrast with the gung-ho, monosyllabic culture that turned RBS into an acquisition machine.