Tips & Suggestions
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 appeared [...]
‘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 )YouTube Video on Surviving an Acquisition
Cass Business School, where I teach a course on Mergers and Acquisitions, has recorded a video interview on the Surviving M&A: Make the most of your company being acquired book and also the recent research on this topic. The YouTube video also includes some suggestions for reducing the chance of being made redundant if your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Surviving Mega-Mergers, Advice from Advisors
It just came to my attention that a blog on BNet UK has discussed how to survive a mega merger — the kind that everyone’s talking about after Kraft made its offer for Cadbury and now Hershey and Nestle are possibly in the fray as well. Titled ‘How to Survive a Mega Merger‘, it focusses [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Your rights if you’re fired or made redundant
It happens. You wake up one morning to find out your company’s being acquired. Your first thought: will I be able to keep my job.
You do have some legal rights. There’s differences between being fired (also called ‘dismissal’) and your position being made redundant. In most mergers or acquisitions, what’s happening is that many (sometimes [...]
Hostile Deals: Caveat Emptor
In a related blog, I’ve commented on hostile deals. Why? There’s been a lot of press on this topic because of last month’s $19 billion unsolicited (hostile) offer for Cadbury by Kraft. Certainly, as I note in that blog, the deal has had so much attention not just because it’s hostile, but it’s also all [...]
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