Recently, the Board Of Directors of Pfizer Ltd. (“Pfizer India”) and Wyeth Ltd. (“Wyeth India”) had approved the long-awaited merger of Wyeth India into Pfizer India, which will create a single Pfizer brand in India. In...
Mahindra Satyam: Back From The Brink!
In September 2008, Satyam, the then sixth largest India-based IT services company, received the coveted “Golden Peacock Global Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance”. Then, just four short months after this...
Two Airlines Driven By One Pilot: TATA
Ratan TATA‘s long-standing but unrealized dreams may finally be getting wings. Nearly six decades after the Indian government divested the TATA’s of their majority holding in Air India by nationalizing the airline, TATA...
My Home Acquires Jayajothi To Build “OWN HOME”
My Home Industries Limited (MHIL): MHIL is a joint venture between My Home Group and CRH Plc. CRH Plc which is having the presence in 33 countries across 3,500 locations. The products of MHIL with nomenclature MAHA...
Holcim Partial Exit—Innovative Structure
The cement industry is literally the building block of a nation. A country’s cement output is considered one of the primary indicators of its level of economic development. In a recent development Holcim, one of the...
Tech Mahindra Successfully Merges Satyam With Itself
Tech Mahindra completed Satyam’s merger with itself. The merged entity will be called Tech Mahindra and Mr. Anand Mahindra will be its Chairman. Tech Mahindra Managing Director, C. P. Gurnani announced that the swap...
SMALL IS THE NEW BIG
Market regulator SEBI, vide notification dated 8th October 2013 issued the SEBI (Listing of specified securities on Institutional Trading Platform) Regulations, 2013. SEBI has initiated a new trading platform for the...
Synergy Arising From Yahoo! Acquiring Tumblr
Yahoo has acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash – roughly a quarter of the purchase price The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators...
SPLIT & LIST: THE WAY AHEAD FOR CONGLOMERATES?
In last September’s edition we covered a topic “Conglomerates – Corporate Dinosaur: On their Way to Extinction?” where we discussed various reasons for decreasing number of conglomerates, one of them being increasing...
Conglomerates – Corporate Dinosaur: On their Way to Extinction?
Introduction: Reason for diversification Every company in its lifetime reaches a phase where the management is under dilemma as to whether they should go for diversification or launch new products in existing range in...
IS VALUATION ONLY ABOUT NUMBERS?
INTRODUCTION Yes, we are all aware of the famous phrase “valuation is an art and not science” but how sincerely do we follow it. When it comes to valuation the entire focus immediately shifts to our most loveable friend...
Antitrust laws- A Study
Antitrust laws play an important role in ensuring that corporate transactions such as Mergers & Acquisitions have the benefit of competitive prices and quality of goods and services. The antitrust laws accomplish...