Mergers And Acquisitions Quotes

“The world is now being dominated by few Giant organizations that influence and dectate our consuming behavior.”
― Ashraf Haggag, No Place To Stand Alone: Historical Mergers and Acquisitions in Different Corporate Markets

“Companies should consider merger and acquisition (M&A) opportunities carefully because these strategic moves can have a significant impact on their operations and financial health. Thorough evaluation helps mitigate risks, ensure alignment with business objectives, and maximize the potential benefits, ultimately leading to successful integration and growth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“The power of the big fish in general to regroup is hardly restricted to banking. When Standard Oil was broken up in 1911, the immediate effect was to replace a national monopoly with a number of regional monopolies controlled by many of the same Wall Street interests. Ultimately, the regional monopolies regrouped: In 1999 Exxon (formerly Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly Standard Oil Company of New York) reconvened in one of the largest mergers in US history. In 1961 Kyso (formerly Standard Oil of Kentucky) was purchased by Chevron (formerly Standard Oil of California); and in the 1960s and 1970s Sohio (formerly Standard Oil of Ohio) was bought by British Petroleum (BP), which then, in 1998, merged with Amoco (formerly Standard Oil of Indiana).

The tale of AT&T is similar. As the result of an antitrust settlement with the government, on January 1, 1984, AT&T spun off its local operations so as to create seven so-called Baby Bells. But the Baby Bells quickly began to merge and regroup. By 2006 four of the Baby Bells were reunited with their parent company AT&T, and two others (Bell Atlantic and NYNEX) merged to form Verizon.

So the hope that you can make a banking breakup stick (even if it were to be achieved) flies in the face of some pretty daunting experience. Also, note carefully a major political fact: The time when traditional reformers had enough power to make tough banking regulation really work was the time when progressive politics still had the powerful institutional backing of strong labor unions.

But as we have seen, that time is long ago and far away.”
― Gar Alperovitz, What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

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“Finally, the legitimization of the corporate holding company [1890] established a business structure that lessened the threat of competition by allowing for the elimination of competitors. The merger movement followed and horizontal combinations of productive capability reorganized industry into large blocks of corporate power.”
― Donald Stabile, Prophets of Order: The Rise of the New Class, Technocracy and Socialism in America

“After a partnership dispute, most of the partners will leave the alliance but not their arrogance.”
― amit kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In partnership disputes, most of the partners will leave the alliance but not their arrogance”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Acquisition, acquisition, acquisition, merger! Until there was only one business left in every field.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation