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by Wirtschaftswoche Der Aluminiumkonzern Alcoa trennt sein Geschäft in zwei Sparten - eine gute Entscheidung. Eine Reihe großer Abspaltungen beschäftigt derzeit die Konzernwelt: Angefangen bei Ebay und Paypal über Bayer und Covestro, Reckitt Benckiser und sein Pharmageschäft, LVMH und Hermès bis hin zu Alcoa in dieser Woche. Der Trend scheint ungebrochen – und die Idee…

by CNBC A $160 billion merger between Pfizer and Allergan lay in tatters Wednesday and left experts contemplating whether more deals could be hit by new tax rules issued by the U.S. Treasury. The deal, which would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by redomiciling to Ireland, has now been formally…

by Handelsblatt Kurz nach seinem Amtsantritt als Metro-Chef im Januar 2012 setzte Olaf Koch ein Zeichen. Er verlegte sein Büro vom Hauptgebäude der Düsseldorfer Zentrale, der Brücke 1, zur Brücke 13, von wo das Tagesgeschäft der Großhandelsmärkte geführt wird. Damit rückte er „Cash & Carry“ wieder in den Fokus des Handelskonzerns – die Sparte, mit…

by: Florian Kolf and Georg Weishaupt German retailer Metro is splitting into two. Investors think the company’s consumer electronics and supermarket businesses are worth more separately than together. The break-up also helps CEO Olaf Koch, who can relegate a cantankerous minority shareholder to the sidelines. Shortly after he took over as chief executive of German ... Read more

by Vietnam.net Foreign investors’ high interest in the consumer goods sector which has been growing very rapidly in recent years is believed to help boost merger & acquisitions (M&A), according to VnExpress. The number of reported M&A deals in 2015 was 40 percent higher [...] Read more

by Bloomberg Vietnamese mergers and acquisitions are forecast to hit a fresh record again this year, spurred by foreign buyers’ interest in the country’s fast-growing consumer sector. [...] Read more

by BusinessDayLive SABMiller branded six packs of Castle Lite beer move along the production line at SABMiller's Newlands brewery in Cape Town on Tuesday. THE way is clear for global brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) to make a formal offer to buy SABMiller in a deal worth more than $100bn after the SABMiller board…

Economic recovery and active legal reforms are bringing Vietnam up in the global mergers and acquisitions market in 2015. Veteran experts claim that Vietnam’s ongoing reforms have made it an attractive market for global M&A dealsAccording to the Institution of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) estimate, Vietnam’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market is expected to ... Read more

(ĐTCK) Ông Lại Văn Đạo, Tổng giám đốc SCIC cho biết, khi Nghị định 60/2015/NĐ-CP cùng các văn bản hướng dẫn có hiệu lực, Chính phủ cho phép SCIC bán nhiều hơn 49% vốn cho nhà đầu tư ngoại tại các DN mà SCIC đang quản lý phần vốn Nhà nước, chắc chắn sẽ thu ... Read more