Corporate Restructuring: Combinations and Divestitures
Corporate Restructuring: Combinations and Divestitures
Corporate Restructuring: Combinations and Divestitures
Corporate Restructuring
1960s - Mergers of unrelated firms formed huge conglomerates. 1980s - Investors purchased conglomerates and sold off the pieces as independent companies. 1990s - Strategic mergers of related firms to create synergies.
Divestitures
Divestiture - Eliminating a division or subsidiary that does not fit strategically with the rest of the company.
Divestitures
Sell-off: selling a firms subsidiary or division to another company. Spin-off: separating a subsidiary from its parent company, with no change in equity ownership. The parent firm no longer has control over the subsidiary.
Divestitures
Liquidation: Selling assets to another company and distributing the proceeds from the sale to shareholders. Going Private: A group of private investors buys all of a firms publiclytraded stock. The firm is now private, and its shares are no longer traded in the secondary market.