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Mergers are almost inevitable as firms: quicken growth by acquiring existing companies rather than expanding internally, especially as shares can be issued instead of cash; combine to ward off competitors; absorb other firms that are underutilising their assets; combine to secure their survival in industries that are declining; take over suppliers to safeguard their sources of materials; increasingly have to compete on a global scale.
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© 1998 Geoffrey Knott
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Knott, G. (1998). Business Mergers. In: Financial Management. Macmillan Business Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14766-3_22
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