A concise handbook for managers who are looking at growing theirbusinesses through acquisitions. This book provides a step-by-stepstructure to help managers ensure success. This book contains the results of Europe’s largest survey on thereasons for success and failure of acquisitions, based on 350cases. The survey results provide practical guidelines to where thedangers lie and how to avoid them. It also has case studies and checklists, making it the essentialtool for anyone involved in acquisitions.
Book Details:
- Author: Denzil Rankine
- ISBN: 9780471975984
- Year Published: 1998
- Pages: 170
- BISAC: BUS027000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Finance
About the Book and Topic:
A concise handbook for managers who are looking at growing theirbusinesses through acquisitions. This book provides a step-by-stepstructure to help managers ensure success. This book contains the results of Europe’s largest survey on thereasons for success and failure of acquisitions, based on 350cases. The survey results provide practical guidelines to where thedangers lie and how to avoid them. It also has case studies and checklists, making it the essentialtool for anyone involved in acquisitions.
There is always a lot of managerial interest in M&A and this book, in offering a “how-to” approach is particularly well-tailored to reach this market. The author, in writing from the credible standpoint of experience, will be particularly attractive to a manager faced with the problems of the practical implementation of an acquisition.
Useful for busy executives–checklists provide readilyaccessible sound-bytes of information incorporating brief summariesof key conceptual ideas and how to implement them. * Offers concise and practical information incorporating casestudies and Europe’s largest survey on the reasons behind thesuccesses and failures of acquisitions. * Takes a unique commercial approach, as opposed to a financialor legal standpoint.
About the Author
About the Author Denzil Rankine is Chief Executive of AMR, a strategic research consultancy specialising in acquisitions. He has 15 year’s experience of advising companies on acquisitions and strategic development. He has worked on hundreds of acquisition programmes with British, French and American acquirers on agreed and hostile deals valued up to #400m. He has advised on acquisitions in 26 different countries as well as multi-million dollar cross-border mergers.