When you have mergers and acquisitions that improve the quality of your product, the ability to grow and bring better efficiency, it's good for all.
Quotes about mergers (16 Quotes)
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
We don't think these large mergers are good for consumers. They put more utilities in fewer and fewer hands, increasing the likelihood of complex financial structures that will be less transparent and undermining the ability of state regulators to protect consumers.
Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry, ... While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition.
Companies are trying to take some action in order to reduce their expenses, so you'll likely see some further mergers and acquisitions.
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Looking at past data and previous mergers, typically you do find an increase in customer satisfaction. That's because what's happened is we're seeing artificial results for satisfaction based on an event, as opposed to real life experiences due to normal operations.
Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.
Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.
The time of big mergers is over, for the moment, but we can see more strategic alliances of the Renault and Nissan kind.
These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old ATT monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.
With respect to the committee's specific question -- whether mergers and acquisitions in our industry have contributed to higher prices at the pump -- the answer is no.
Approval of these mergers undermines more than 20 years of efforts to introduce competition into the residential local and long distance telecommunications market, ... The FCC promises cross-technology competition with Internet phone service on cable and telephone systems, but the Commission has failed to ensure that consumers will receive meaningful choices at fair prices.
Airline mergers are very difficult. They require a lot of cooperation from labor, management attention and financing. All those things are in short supply when you're just struggling to survive.
Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
If China lets multinationals' malicious mergers and acquisitions go ahead freely, China can only act as labor in the global supply chain.