Sentence examples for clever acquisition from inspiring English sources

Henry Moore's monumental "Stone Form," carved out of granite (rarer than his bronzes, which are nearly all cast in editions of multiple specimens) was a clever acquisition at £1.4 million.

Going back to Priceline's clever acquisition strategy, it has more or less been trying to duplicate the success it had with Booking.com in Agoda — the Thai travel site it purchased for an estimated$140 million back in 2007.

Through clever acquisitions and tight accounting, Stevens enabled the group to make huge profits.

In its defence, it has been the underbidder on deals when others have clearly overpaid, sold assets at a profit and made clever acquisitions.

Viacom has made some small but clever acquisitions — Neopets and iFilm, for instance — and has a proven record for knowing what young people want and giving it to them on MTV and Nickelodeon.

The bank, which focuses on Spain and Mexico, made three clever acquisitions last year: a buy-out of minority shareholders of Bancomer, a big Mexican bank; a takeover of Laredo National, a Texan bank; and the purchase of Hipotecaria Nacional, a Mexican mortgage company.

To add sparkle, Mr Hutchings will have to make some clever acquisitions with the £1 billion or so he says he will have available to spend.A better solution might be to shift the group's domicile to America, where around four-fifths of the new Tomkins is in any case based and where engineering companies command share-price multiples of around 20 times earnings.

And Actavis, its compatriot, has grown from obscurity a few years ago through clever acquisitions and global investments into the world's fifth-largest generic drugs maker.In normal times, these firms would be the toast of the town in Reykjavik.

EarthLink: Winning Tightwad 12.20.01 Clever acquisitions have put EarthLink in an enviable position when the telecoms bounce back.

What's also interesting about the way the company and its product has grown is how this appears to have been partially achieved through a clever strategy of acquisitions.

This clever method of customer acquisition is a form of word-of-mouth marketing known as a referral program.