Mergers Quotes

When you do a bunch of mergers you make compromises. - Steve Black

When the economy is growing faster and businesses want to replenish inventories and make the kind of capital expenditures, mergers and acquisitions that outstrip their internal financing, then they will turn to banks. - Stuart Hoffman

What we have pointed out is that we often hear promises of greater resources devoted to R&D (as a result of a merger), but there is absolutely no proof that in the mergers over the last three to five years that that has occurred. - Travis Plunkett

What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies. - Amelia Torres

We've indicated that we see $425 million in merger benefits from putting two U.S. organizations together... That's somewhat different than with UPM, of course; they're headquartered in Finland, and they will not see the same kind of merger benefits that we will, and merger benefits are important in acquisitions and mergers. - John Dillon

We've closed the gap in terms of production capacity and profitability. To embark on another phase of consolidation, you have to find new synergies and not run into any regulatory problems... We've done the necessary mergers to bring shareholder value. - Thierry Desmarest

We're seeing alliances, not mergers, among leaders, which reflects clearer thinking about what is good. - Andrew Neff

We're pretty much on schedule... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers. - John Allison

We're on track for our best year for mergers and acquisitions since 2000. - Richard Peterson

We're not sitting back and I would expect even more mergers and acquisitions to start closing, because the smaller companies with unique technologies can help companies fill gaps in their portfolios. - Ken Fitzpatrick