"This year, we get the revenue benefit of acquisitions," Mr. Joyce said.
Chiefly, their interest in your business stems from understanding what you do, the benefits of acquisition, and how you can add value to their operations.
Analysts are already talking up the benefits of acquisitions.
That Jefferson Smurfit knew it had an investor relations problem was clear from the literature distributed at the meeting, which emphasized 10-year growth and the benefits of acquisitions made in the early 1990's but gave scant attention to the latest year beyond reporting the numbers: 4.6 billion euros ($4.1 billion) in revenue; 273 million euros ($243 million) in after-tax income.
"There's a lot of hype about consolidation, but frankly, I don't see the benefit of an acquisition.
The obvious benefit of simultaneous acquisition is the improved integration of information that allows not only optimal anatomic localization, but also physical movement patterns.
He said one benefit of the acquisition is bringing aboard his new company's digital team, which is located there.
Over the past decade the company has increased deposits at a 10.5% compound rate without the benefit of an acquisition, almost twice the rate of all banks and thrifts.
That's not likely to last, says Block, who believes Walgreen will likely need to operate the two stores under a single name if it plans to receive the full synergistic benefit of the acquisition.
Scott Griffith, Chairman and CEO of Zipcar, says that the short-term benefit of the acquisition is the instant growth, with now more than 400,000 members that stand to benefit from more cars, more convenience and enhanced technology.
In the light of this Proterozoic ocean chemistry theory for mitochondrial endosymbiosis, one can rationalize that the benefit of mitochondrial acquisition was not solely an ability to provide ATP via its utilization of oxygen but its ability to use electrons, as reduced molecules, to buffer oxidant stresses in the environment.
