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Mergers & Acquisitions

Does acquisition breed competition?

Over the past 12 months, AIM-listed software supplier Torex Retail has embarked on an extensive and hugely eventful period of acquisition. Curiously, however, the company’s competitors also claim to be reaping the rewards.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquisition dangers

Acquisitions can fail spectacularly. Instead of creating extra wealth, they destroy it. Step forward the latest apparent victim – Ken Morrison of Morrison Supermarkets, a man with a 37-year unblemished record of success.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Expotel completes VRG merger

Ambitious business-travel booking business Expotel Hotel Reservations has finalised its merger with rival Venue Resource Group, marking a major landmark in chairman Maurice Segal’s expansion strategy.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquisitions on AIM

AIM has long been regarded as Europe's most successful growth company market, however, it is also a hive of mergers and acquisition activity - as new research from Business XL magazine reveals.