Amazon to Buy Whole Foods for $13.4 Billion Amazon agreed to buy the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion, in a deal that will instantly transform the company that pioneered online shopping into a merchant with physical outposts in hundreds of neighborhoods across the country. The acquisition, announced […]
Mergers Acquisitions and Divestitures
Trump Appoints One of His Lawyers to Review Mergers Trump Appoints One of His Lawyers to Review Mergers:- President Trump on Monday named Makan Delrahim, a former government antitrust enforcer and corporate lobbyist, to lead the Justice Department’s review of mergers and acquisitions. The appointment is being closely watched because […]
Swift Opposition to Resurrection of AT&T Giant Swift Opposition to Resurrection of AT&T Giant:- Over three decades ago, such was AT&T’s monopoly over the nation’s communications networks that the government forcefully shattered its empire. Now, as one of its successors again seeks a formidable business empire by buying Time Warner, […]
Shareholders Approve SABMiller Takeover by Anheuser-Busch InBev Shareholders Approve SABMiller Takeover by Anheuser-Busch InBev : LONDON — Shareholders of SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev on Wednesday approved a deal valued at more than $100 billion to create a giant in the beer industry that would control some of the world’s best-known […]
