Sentences with phrase «deal was the acquisition»

Fortunately, management has since lived up to its pedigree & delivered a burgeoning hotel empire — spending, within a year, over $ 550 million on 16 hotels in (primarily) Ireland & the UK, the transformational deal being the acquisition of the Moran Bewley's Hotel Group.

A key deal was the acquisition of a majority stake in Zenith Life of Nigeria.

Not exact matches

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

The talks with Walmart for what could be its largest acquisition to date are still ongoing, and a deal is expected to be clinched soon, two people told Reuters on Wednesday.

While there's an argument to be made that AI is over-hyped as a technology, there's data to back up Sanwal's tongue - in - cheek advice: Mergers and acquisitions of AI startups increased by a factor of seven between 2011 and 2015, from five to more than 35 deals, according to the research firm.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

Newell's acquisition of Jarden was heavily scrutinized at the time of the deal.

If the acquisition had gone through, it would have been the largest tech deal in history.

The Campbell deal, meanwhile, is the largest in the company's history; in the last five years it has made six acquisitions, including Bolthouse, Plum, and Kelsen.

It isn't uncommon for CEOs to talk about biz dev deals prematurely, hint at product announcements or even hint at acquisitions.

As big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitions.

AT&T's $ 85.4 billion planned Time Warner acquisition would be a massive transaction with the potential to remake the media and telecommunications industries, but the deal now faces some big obstacles.

Globally deals totalling $ 1.55 trillion have been struck so far this year, while in Europe mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have totalled more than $ 621 billion, up 151 percent on the same period in 2017, Thomson Reuters data shows.

The ExactTarget / Pardot deal is the second - largest Salesforce acquisition to date — and the largest until 2016 when Salesforce acquired DemandWare.

That debate developed over a few years, he says, and when it started to heat up, his attention was elsewhere — trying to launch Alpha's listings business and then dealing with the TMX acquisition.

But, the president's oft - stated animus toward CNN and its reporting could also be seen as an obstacle to the deal's completion should the Trump administration's Justice Department ultimately opt to challenge the acquisition.

Vanity Fair's October cover story delves into what went behind the deal and provides some insight into what Zuckerberg is looking for when considering an acquisition.

«We view this as a «home - run deal» for Disney and while its an aggressive acquisition with a high price tag, in our opinion this is the right move at the right time as the marriage of these assets creates a much more formidable Disney,» Ives said.

For Ferrero, the acquisition is the latest in a string of deals doubling down on sugary snacks that's come as its rivals retreat.

Dell did not say why it is exploring a major deal, but previous media reports have speculated that it is seeking financing to help pay off the $ 46 billion in debt that it took on as part of its EMC acquisition.

When we get asked to help post-acquisition with the integration / implementation phase, those competing low - level and mid-level interests are still there, still undermining the acquisition, even if the deal was and is the right move for the company overall.

Second, acquisitions are often better deals than going public.

Analysts have long speculated that Express Scripts could be involved in some sort of merger deal, but more likely as an acquisition target rather than as an acquirer.

If the board agrees to a deal with Blackstone, it would represent the biggest shake - up of Thomson Reuters since it was formed a decade ago by Thomson Corp's acquisition of Reuters Group Plc..

Of course, Magnetar could only protest the acquisition price in court if the deal was approved despite its objections.

Among the notable moves Molson Coors made during his tenure was the company's roughly $ 3.5 billion acquisition of Central and East European brewer StarBev LP, a deal that expanded the company's footprint in Europe's emerging markets.

Going public or accepting an acquisition deal isn't in the works.

But it has been more than two years since Kraft Heinz's last deal, its acquisition of Heinz in 2015.

The network equipment company said the deal would likely close during the second half of 2013 and it expects the acquisition to be slightly dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2014.

The problem is that government procurement officers are simultaneously overworked and under pressure to cut acquisition costs, which discourages due diligence, if not dealing with small vendors altogether.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition down a company's supply chain rather than «horizontal» — an acquisition of a direct competitor.

No financial terms were disclosed, although TechCrunch reports that the deal was largely a «talent acquisition.»

The deal came amid a series of acquisitions as conventional automakers and software companies paired in a race to develop what appears to be the future of personal transportation.

CEO Lowell McAdam says the deal would be under the auspices of Verizon's Oath unit, which is run by Tim Armstrong and was created from the acquisitions of Yahoo and AOL.

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is their biggest deal to date, and is 14 times as big as their second - largest acquisition of Twitch in 2014.

After all the frenetic deal - making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and acquisitions.

Investors have been particularly worried about debt deals used to fund acquisitions.

It's an area that CEO Marissa Mayer has identified as critical to revitalizing the Web portal, and the Flurry deal marks one of her biggest acquisitions during her two - year tenure.

Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent are scouring for projects, while Didi's acquisition of Brazil 99 showed deals can get done quickly, unlike the political opposition Chinese companies face in the U.S.

But investors shouldn't get too excited about a possible move on Corus, because Shaw must first close the Canwest deal before seriously looking at other acquisitions, and there is no obvious need to privatize Corus.

Avago Technologies, a chip company formed after the spin out Agilent's chip division, is seeking to expand its business with the acquisition of another semiconductor firm and has explored deals with Xilinx, Renesas Electronics and Maxim Integrated Products, according to a story in Reuters.

If an acquisition of Snyder's Lance goes through, it would be among largest food deals of the year, according to Dealogic.

The company, whose brands include Vans, The North Face and Timberland, said on Monday it is buying the maker of Dickies hospital scrubs and Kodiak boots for $ 820 million, its first major acquisition since its transformative deal for Timberland six years ago.

If completed, the Broadcom deal for Qualcomm would be the largest technology acquisition on record, according to Dealogic.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition along a company's supply chain — rather than a horizontal acquisition of a direct competitor.

Still, AT&T, which is making the largest recent attempt at vertical integration with its proposed $ 85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, has been sued by the Department of Justice to stop the deal.

Not only does it help control marketing costs, as you're less dependent on constant customer acquisition, but there's a pleasure in dealing with regulars, as you build true relationships with people.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

More broadly, large, slow - growing food companies have been paying up for acquisitions, confronted with a relatively slim number of deals that can make an impact.

However, despite the increasing importance of social media, neither HBC nor Saks made any mention of the purchase deal on their Twitter or Facebook — despite the fact it was a friendly acquisition.