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The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
was allowed to merge with Hartford. It was all settled out of court,
assimilated. So it was
In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.
Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.
Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
Over time, all of the markets should be combined.
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition ... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.
WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT.
The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
Unite to win. Divide to conquer.
How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.
Eventually, all companies are replaced.
Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.
Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.
Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.
A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
The force of union conquers all.
If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.
Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.
In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.
(When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and employed a million people.) Bell moved to Washington, D.C., became
The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
Gathers and melts.
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.
They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.
There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again,
It is amazing how disorganized we are trying to organize this company.
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.
United a herd is an army; divided a herd is fair game.
In the end, we are collected works.
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.
You can't divide a business like a sack of apples.
Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.
The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.
At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.
Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!
I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything.
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.
I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.
The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
Little, Brown and Company
Communism is like one big phone company.
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
Be an aggregator, not an aggravator.
By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto-it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Is there possibility of a group discount?
One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed,
Together? Together.
Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.
Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.
their arrangement with
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
If nobody is happy, then it's an equitable merger. - Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration
It's not yet clear which side will win many of the struggles outlined in these pages - only that the companies in the crosshairs are up against far more than they bargained for. There have, however, already been some solid victories, too many to fully catalogue here.
The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations
Our acquisition strategy is very clear: 3x3. Three continents - Asia, Africa and South America, and in three categories where we have strong positions - personal wash, household care and hair care.
either on a competitive or a cartel basis.
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives
The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
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If his forces are united, separate them.
Organizations who win, think deeply, choose wisely, and act decisively.
One operates in the now.
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.
Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.
It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.
Brands are no longer created; they are co-created.
At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.
We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces
the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.