Sellers opt for mergers and acquisitions to reduce taxes, to diversify, to restrict working capital financing, for technological synergies, when worthy successor is not there and due to the inability to cope with competition.
Merger Motives
Sellers opt for mergers and acquisitions to reduce
taxes, to diversify, to restrict working capital financing, for technological
synergies, when worthy successor is not there and due to the inability to cope
with competition. Buyers go for mergers to acquire new product or capacities or
permanent, or more synergy, to achieve economies of scale, when outside capital
is available; there is more control of patents and tax advantages.
Organizations opt for merges with the following
motives.
Improving
economies of scale
Gaining
managerial expertise
Market
supremacy
Acquiring
a new product or brand name
Diversifying
the Portfolio
Reducing
risk and borrowing costs
Taxation
or investment incentives
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