Articles on surviving an acquisition
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 )‘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.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )(More than) Ten Ways to Survive a Merger
The decision by Cadbury to accept Kraft’s offer has certainly stimulated interest in what’s happening to the employees there. BNET (the on-line business service from CBS) has published an article two days ago that has picked up on the advice offered by the Surviving M&A book and as also noted by the Financial Times blog [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Surviving the Kraft acquisition of Cadbury
Very nice to see that the Financial Times has yesterday reiterated the advice from this blog and Surviving M&A book about how to survive an acquisition. The news is now that Cadbury WILL now be bought by Kraft, as the revised price of the offer has now reached a level where the board of Cadbury [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Review: ‘Surviving Mergers’ from The Times, 2 September 2009
There was an excellent summary and review by Emily Ford of the Surviving Mergers: Make the most of your company being acquired book in the 2 September 2009 issue of The Times and also available on-line here. She entitled her review ‘In a merger, survival can depend on you’, which is certainly true, yet often [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘When it comes to mergers, just look after No 1′ (Times)
An article in the Times this morning (19 August 2009) noted from the Surviving Mergers book the importance of making sure that you don’t depend too much on your boss to take care of you when your company is acquired or even if your firm is the larger one taking over another company. Dominic Walsh [...]
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