Management and Organizational Studies 1023A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Multinational Corporation, Western Standard, Vertical Integration

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1023A/B
• Professor: Christina Maco

Document Summary

Mergers and acquisitions (pages 275-297, some not in txt) Class pic: brand names that typically aren"t individual companies. They"ve been bought through acquisitions or merged with other companies. Nestle owns loreal, merged to create larger companies. General terms: acquisition: the purchase of one firm by another, one company buys another company. Two separate companies, each with their own respective shareholders. On the stock exchange separately as their own companies. Ceo, cfo and board of director and so did shoppers: after the acquisition: loblaws buys shoppers. On a stock exchange, wont see shoppers listed because the owner is loblaws. With the acquisition, only loblaws has a board of directors, ceo, A true merger is they form one company and it"s a new company: price waters house and coopers lebrand used to be two separate accounting firms. They merged together to be what we know now as pwc. Their old ones disappeared and they"ve created a new legal entity.