Comments on: Add Value to your Customer Acquisition Strategies

By: Maritza B

Maritza B — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:45:29 +0000

You are being conned it seems to be, and this is typical.
A Merger is when two companies in the same field, join forces. This usually means, that there will a reduction of staff personal. And the other workers on the line.
An Acquisition, is when one Company buys out another company.
The only ones here, that benefit as a rule, are the Executives and the shareholders, who own stock in the companies.
You have to figure, that the company, that took over yours, will keep there own employees first, and let your group go, at least the ones, that they don't need.
As they have asked you to move to another State already, it seems likely, they don't need the building you work in now.
It's more than likely, they just want to kill the competition you gave them.
If I were you, while you wait, until they 'find' a new office for you, that you check around for a new position or job. Just in case, you have one of those duplicate jobs.

By: B Slate

B Slate — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:26:30 +0000

The previous answer is correct. Materiality will persist in this case.

However, occassionally companies do disclose those information either as an aggregate (all purchases) or as a footnote in its financial statements or in management discussions (in 10Q and 10Ks). Sometimes they get reported in 8Ks.

I recommend:
1) If you are really interested to find out and do not see the information anywhere, you can try calling the acquiring company and speak to their CFO. It works especially well if you are actually a stockholder of the company as companies generally do not like to disclose and will sometimes be bound by confidentiality agreements in cases like this.

2) Another way is to search for press releases from the purchased companies or the acquirer.

Good luck!

Just Be!

By: ForwardToEden

ForwardToEden — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:53:52 +0000

L8nights, dear child, rest easy. I will indeed never heat my home with natural gas or drive a CNG car. I not only know where natural gas comes from, I know enough about various energy resources to know how to walk the talk – that is, I know how to practice what I preach – and to know we have better energy options than hydrocarbons. Let me recommend that you learn to write a temperate, properly punctuated and grammatically correct sentence before you accuse me or anyone else of ignorance.

By: Hp Xtreme

Hp Xtreme — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:05:22 +0000

sure why not

By: pjoshi

pjoshi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:33:15 +0000

First, ask, collect, check the ownership of the running company.
Second, ask, collect, check the day book of the company.
Third, ask collect, check the distributor / dealer of the company to know of the products' quality, qualtity sold marketed on a random basis to evaluate the market good will and market share.
Fourth, ask, collect, check the profit and loss statements.
Fifth, ask, collect, check for the assets and liabialites of the company.
Sixth, ask, check with the company banker the financial status of the company.
Seventh, check, talk with the staff about the company. Need to be done discreetly and must be confidential. The staff must not know of your intention for a possible acquisition / merger.
Seventh, if the liability is one percent more that the asset, then its not worth investing your monies for there will be many hidden areas where funds may keep draining.
At best, one can pay a max of 9 times the average profit booked if the company has a possiblilty of increasing its market share and value added produts after the merger.
Fundamentally, cost to savings needs to be evaluated.
Conduct a SWOT for unknown threats and weaknesses.
Find out the market regulator's stand and what stringent enviornmental regulations needs to be followed, for they will bog down progress, since they are all time consumers ending up one loosing a great amount of money and possible capital errosion itself.
Throughly discus with your banker for their 120% support in such takeovers.
Most important plan as many escape routes as possible incase you get into a mess, thereby you come out with a barest minimum loss.
IN short, plan your loss first and start your analysis.