Archive for February, 2010
More advice on avoiding redundancy…
On Wednesday, 24 February 2010, the Times of London published an opinion piece entitled: ‘How to ward off redundancy in chaos of M&A’. This was an article based on the Surviving M&A book, and summarising the key points for employees who are faced with a takeover of their company. Yet again, it is in response [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Can you trust an acquiring company’s promises?
Would anyone answer the above question ‘yes’ after yesterday’s news? Kraft, less than three weeks after agreeing to the purchase of British chocolate company Cadbury, reversed it’s promise to keep Cadbury’s Bristol plant (with over 400 employees) open. You can see the news story here on Sky News. As the Cadbury union leaders said, this [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘Management Today’ Article on Surviving an Acquisition
In light of the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft, I was asked to write an article in Management Today entitled ‘MT Expert’s Ten Top Tips: Surviving M&A’. Please do see the article, which is based on some of the findings from the book: Surviving M&A: Make the most of your company being acquired.
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