Making mergers work once they've been consummated?
Advice is available: The Commission provides an online toolkit for charities considering merger – Making Mergers Work.
If even the defence business is struggling to make mergers work, what mismatches might other industries turn up?
Nevertheless, it remains extremely difficult to make mergers work.There is some evidence to suggest that companies are becoming better at it.
It is a near certainty that, if asked, little short of 99% of them would describe themselves as "above average" at making mergers and acquisitions work.
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However, it makes mergers and acquisitions cheaper: Japanese firms have spent more than $11 billion on deals in poor countries so far this year, according to Dealogic, already surpassing the total in 2009.
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But the report is a sign of the problem AT&T faces: it has a lofty stock multiple, which makes mergers tempting, but it seems shut out of both domestic and foreign deals.
