Publications

By Dietmar Ostermann, Doug Harvey, Jan Hesse and Shan Haque – Strategy& Executive summary Mergers and acquisitions in the global automotive supplier sector are occurring at an unprecedented level in 2015, according to the Strategy& seventh annual “Consolidation in the Global Automotive Supply Industry” report. Based on data from the first six months of 2015, Strategy& anticipates that deal value will top … Read more

By Ernst & Young Status of the marketplace Over the past couple of years, regulatory guidelines, requirements and processes that stemmed from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) adversely impacted the banking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, and transaction activity fell. As the understanding of regulatory guidelines has improved and banking institutions have matured … Read more

By K.S. Reddy, En Xie, Rajat Agrawal Abstract This paper aims to revisit and reinforce the early development of Farmers Fox Theory (Reddy et al., 2014a) by analysing three cases in the cross-border inbound acquisitions stream. A qualitative case method is adopted to explore the findings from the sample cases, which are the Vodafone–Hutchison telecom deal, the Bharti Airtel–MTN broken … Read more

By John Jullens – Strategy& How Emerging Markets Companies Can Avoid Growth Traps Rapidly growing companies in the developing world can prepare themselves to do battle on a global stage by gaining access to vital capabilities through acquisitions or partnerships. It is extremely difficult for emerging market economies to sustain the rapid growth that stems from industrialization. Most get … Read more

Issues driving consumer organizations By KPMG Consumer Currents “Companies need to ask themselves if they have truly put the customer at the heart of their business” As Albert Einstein shrewdly remarked: “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” In the consumer marketplace in the 21st century we … Read more