Sentence examples for acquisitions to keep from inspiring English sources

Analysts urged the former state-run monopoly to borrow money and make acquisitions to keep pace with its competitors.

After losing out to Diageo and Pernod Ricard, which jointly bought the Seagram beverage assets, Allied Domecq has made a series of acquisitions to keep pace with rivals.

But with lower profits from retail banking overall and competitors pushing into its home turf in New York, Citigroup's executives are looking at acquisitions to keep the bank's share of deposits growing.

He'll have to make some bold acquisitions to keep up the double-digit growth his shareholders have come to expect.

Anyway, with Workday an emerging rival, Oracle has since made several acquisitions to keep up.

He plunked down nearly $30 billion on almost 50 acquisitions to keep pace with SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev, which is run by a trio of Brazilian billionaires.

Hedge funds interviewed by the FSA said that RBS had been looking for a "trophy" deal and that Goodwin needed to complete the acquisition to "keep his job".

A relatively small acquisition to keep Powerset out of Microsoft's hands, even if just a hedging move, may suddenly be attractive to them.

TabTale, the Israel-based kids' gaming and educational app publisher backed by Qualcomm and others, has made another acquisition to keep growing its position in the market.

While Verizon continues to work towards closing its acquisition of Yahoo to boost its media and consumer Internet business (which also includes ownership of AOL, which owns TechCrunch), the company has made another acquisition to keep building out its enterprise services, too.

As standard as getting to keep vested options if you quit before an investment is closed is in the venture capital world, it's equally as common that you have to stay through the close of acquisition to keep them in the private equity world.