"We are getting there in terms of the need to get consolidation of power, extracting synergies, and controlling audiences so you can have more leverage with agencies and drive the value of radio and have a critical mass to compete with the BBC," said Richard Menzies-Gow, a media analyst at Dresdner.
"He saw how hard it was to extract synergies" in Chevron's acquisition of the Gulf Corporation for $13.2 billion in 1984.
Charlie Mills, food analyst at broker CSFB said: "It's difficult to extract synergies between two own-label businesses because the retailers usually demand to share in the savings, ever eager as they are to drive down costs".
Koch should be able to extract synergies by reintegrating Georgia-Pacific's business with some of the operations it had bought from the Atlanta firm in 2004.
"Kabel Deutschland does not just represent an opportunity for Vodafone to extract synergies but also to better defend its core business," telecommunications analysts at Espirito Santo in London told investors in a research note on Wednesday.
This implies a complete U-turn in the relationship between AOL and its sister content divisions.In the early days of the merger, when Bob Pittman was trying to bash division heads together to extract synergies, the company stressed with a nod to the regulators that it would not keep its own content to itself.
When corporate acquisitions fail to extract synergies, it often happens because of bureaucracy and poor execution.
Workers at the two companies will lose their jobs as InBev gets to work on extracting the synergies it will need to justify the price it is paying.
cPBSS: percentage of bacteria strain on which synergism has been observed; : fold increase in MIC values of the antibiotics after association with plants extract; S: Synergy, I: Indifference; na: not applicable tract; S: Synergy, I: Indifference; na: not applicable.
But Mr Parsons is now trying harder to extract more "synergy".
Here we have shown that ethanol extracts of M. koenigii and A. nilagirica exhibit high inhibitory potency against M. smegmatis and that M. koenigii extract in synergy with rifampicin killed M. bovis BCG efficiently.
