Sentences with phrase «buy rival companies»

But by far the bulk of debt was used to buy rival companies, as occurred when MCI bought Sprint, and when European companies bought hitherto public monopolies.

Not exact matches

The news of two rival chip companies working together comes at an interesting time, as chip maker Broadcom has put forward a $ 130 billion offer to buy its rival, Qualcomm.

Fishing and hunting equipment chain Cabela's said it agreed to be bought by rival Bass Pro Shops in a deal valued at $ 5.5 billion that will help the privately held company nearly double its store count in North America.

On the horizon, Sirius has shown interest in buying online music streaming service Pandora (p), which would better enable the company to compete with rivals Spotify, Apple (aapl), and Amazon (amzn).

If Walgreens buys smaller rival Rite Aid (RAD), the combined company may end up with far fewer stores than it bargained for, according to an analysis by real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield.

What was then called 24 Hour Nautilus grew quickly, and a decade later, the company bought out several of its rivals and rebranded as 24 Hour Fitness.

The company two years ago had planned to buy smaller rival Rite Aid in its 4,500 - store entirety but in the face of anti-trust regulators balking in June, instead settled for a downsized deal announced in September.

When those companies grow and spend big money in their data centers, Intel stands to benefit — as long as they keep buying from the semiconductor giant and not rivals like Nvidia.

Teva Pharmaceuticals has proposed buying rival Mylan for $ 40 billion in cash and stock, as the Israel - based drugmaker looks to gain dominance among generic pharmaceutical companies.

A.P. Moller - Maersk has agreed to buy German rival container Hamburg Süd, sending shares in the Danish shipping company up nearly 5 percent.

In 2007, the company bought Flexcar, its biggest competitor in the United States, and then in 2010, the company bought its U.K. rival, Streetcar Ltd..

Online food delivery company GrubHub forecast current - quarter revenue above estimates and said it would look at buying smaller rivals to reach more customers and add restaurants to its network.

Unfortunately, those well - paid employees were also the most effective at making sales, and the company quickly lost market share to rivals such as Best Buy that had better - trained employees.

The late Ted Rogers» family has seen the value of its stake in Rogers Communications go up more than 15 % in the past year, a 12 - month stretch that included the company going halves with bitter rival Bell Media to buy a 75 % stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.07 billion.

This is 10 % higher than the bid of rival Xstrata, which had proposed to buy LionOre at C$ 25 ($ 23) a share, equal to C$ 6.2 billion ($ 5.7 billion) for the whole company.

Known for his steely determination in business, Khodorkovsky bought up floundering state companies for a pittance, turned them around and used his resulting power to squeeze out rivals and minority shareholders.

A rival company called InStorage REIT attempted to buy them out in 2006, but they weren't interested.

The company has overhauled its app and added automated ad buying tools in an effort to hold onto users and advertisers as bigger rival Facebook Inc introduces Snapchat - like features to Instagram.

Marathon Petroleum said it would buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion to form a company that would leapfrog Valero Energy as the largest U.S. refiner by capacity.

Nintendo's alarming 70 % and 25 % reductions of its full - year forecast of Wii U and 3DS sales, respectively, have sparked endless debates about the future of the company — should it abandon hardware altogether, start making mobile games, or buy its former rival Sega?

It just rejected an overture from rival newspaper publisher Gannett to buy the company for $ 815 million, and now it plans to embark on what CEO Justin Dearborn has described as an «exciting and compelling strategic transformation,» even as the company faces continued pressure for a sale.

In a 2011 interview, he also said the company may buy a bigger rival in the U.S. or Europe.

Amazon is interested in buying Indian e-commerce company Flipkart, Reuters reported on May 2, citing unnamed sources, following a report by TV station CNBC - TV18 that Amazon had made a formal offer to buy 60 percent of its larger local rival.

The chairman of Tribune Publishing proved it again Monday when he got his board to reject much larger rival newspaper company Gannett's second offer of $ 15 per share to buy the company,...

** Canada's No. 2 marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis Inc has agreed to buy smaller rival CanniMed Therapeutics Inc for C$ 1.1 billion ($ 852 million) as companies jostle to benefit from the country's legalization of recreational marijuana use later this year.

Wynn Resorts said on March 22 that Macau rival Galaxy Entertainment was buying a $ 928 million stake in the New York - listed company.

The global beer market is consolidating, with big beer companies buying out rivals to try and drive costs lower through merger savings.

British drinks company Rich Energy are heading the consortium intent on buying the F1 team as they look to rival Red Bull in both the drinks» market, and on the F1 track.

Cupid has been challenged by continental rival Cupidon over the Scottish company's use of the Cupidon.com domain name it bought 18 months ago for # 175,000.

However, what truly sets the company apart from most of its rivals is that rather than attempt to grow for growth's sake, management has remained steadfast in its approach to buying only the most popular names in its niche industries.

OnLive's assignment came less than two months after Sony bought rival streaming game company Gaikai for some $ 380 million.

Williams, our parent company, had bought Bally, and Bally had made a game called Arch Rivals that used hand - drawn animations to depict two - on - two basketball.

- the crafting system encouraged massive over-production by rewarding players for each item produced - this over-production led to hyper - inflation as NPC shopkeepers printed money on demand to buy the worthless items - players used vendors as unlimited safety deposit boxes by setting the prices for their own goods far above market value - item hoarding by players forced the team to abandon the closed - loop economy as the world began to empty out of goods - player cartels (including one from a rival game company!)

Eidos, the company that fathered the hugely popular Ms Croft, looks like becoming the latest high - profile British computer games company to be bought by a foreign competitor after receiving a takeover approach from its French rival Infogrames.

With the bar exam just around the corner, it's probably too late to add this doozy of a fact pattern about John Mackey, the co-founder of Whole Foods who had an online pseudonym — Rahodeb — under which he posted 1,100 entries on Yahoo Finance's bulletin board touting his company's stock and also criticizing Wild Oats Markets, a rival that his company went on to buy.

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) have landed roles as UK events and marketing company UBM agrees to buy Asian rival Allworld for $ 485m (# 382m).

But in a move unprecedented in the tech world, six of Google's rivals — including Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion — combined forces recently to prevent the company from buying a critical trove of patents.

With Tesla finally rolling out the Model 3, and rival companies either improving their own offerings or planning to launch new versions, now might be a great time to think about buying an electric car.

Avast bought its rival AVG last year, and the two companies» malware - detection engines have been merged, with remarkable improvements.

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