GMS 690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jet Fuel, United States Dollar, Canadian Dollar
17 Jul 2016
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Lowes acquiring rona is a symptom of something else. Low cost advantage to canada low dollar. Threat to smaller players in the market. Hard for them to compete with lowes for price. Competing with large player will be tough. More expensive to import increase fdi cheaper to come into canada increase competition in the environment benefit consumers. 3. 2 billion canada using american dollars to buy lowes creating an incentive of more aquisison of canadian companies by american firms home depot #1. Invest money, information related to customers, manufautng process. Lowes warehouse, processes, automatic recording, e-commerce processes. When lowes was bought people, propriety assest, and money, and management structure. Having more fdi = more opportunity for jobs, more corporate income tax, Technology transfer lease space cost advantage hurts home hardware, lower lease costs size biggest target takeovers in : one in the retail space, one in oil, one in electric power generation.
