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Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study The largest of these buyouts was Carpetland, based in Holland and Belgium, which brought the store estate up to 440 stores by 2002. Carpetright is rolling out a rip-and-replace solution to streamline its IT systems following an intense period of... [25 Jun 2007]
Workers 'worse off' under private equity
News Speaking to silicon.com, a spokesman for the T&G union supported Hutton's sentiment: "We think there is a huge impact potentially on employee levels and pay terms, especially with leveraged buyouts, where a private equity firm increases the amount... [26 Mar 2007]
Sun upbeat on profits - and $700m cash injection
News But buyouts are not on Sun's agenda. The software and server maker reported revenue of $3.57bn, a seven per cent increase from the year-earlier period, and profits per share of $126m, or 3 cents per share, using generally accepted accounting... [24 Jan 2007]
Microsoft is 2006 takeover titan
News Oracle and KPN were placed joint second, with 13 acquisitions apiece, and IBM came in fourth with 12 buyouts, according to consultant Icon Corporate Finance. Microsoft racked up the largest number of global acquisitions in 2006 with 14 takeovers. [15 Jan 2007]
BT sells satellite business for £25m
News Earlier this week, the telco was more focused on buyouts than sell-offs. BT has announced it is to sell its satellite broadcast operations to Arqiva for a £25m price tag. Arqiva will take over BT's satellite broadcast services, including BT's... [17 Nov 2006]
SAP buying risk management software partner
News Over the past year, SAP has increased its pace of buyouts to fill out its product portfolio. SAP announced on Monday plans to acquire Virsa Systems, a regulatory compliance and risk management software company. [04 Apr 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Twists and turns of open source
Comment In the exceptional case of management buyouts, the intention is usually to run the operation for only a short time before selling out to a large corporation. But, says Martin Brampton, it can lead to some unusual and complicated situations you... [25 Oct 2005]
An Overview of the Final Merchant Banking Rules
White Paper For those asset-based lenders who have learned the value of mezzanine financing or other equity participation to support leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings and other highly leveraged transactions, and for those banking organizations that... [29 Sep 2005]
Meg Whitman
AS Profile Along with buyouts, the year has seen eBay test the water for digital music downloads and fight back at the scammers using its name in their spam and phishing exploits. Though down 13 places on the Agenda Setters list from last year, Meg Whitman's... [23 Sep 2005]
Buyouts back in style
News Across Europe buyouts in 2004 should have a total value of €97.5bn, an increase of 44 per cent year-on-year, according to the Private Equity Deal Forecast. Moon believes it's safe to call the increase in buyouts a turnaround and added that going... [08 Dec 2004]
Tech investment healthy in Europe, healthiest in UK
News However, the good news is against a backdrop of investors still preferring the relative safety of buyouts as opposed to early stage ventures. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' figures, buyouts account for 40 per cent of overall technology... [17 Jun 2004]
HP and MediTract: The Best Medicine for Managing Healthcare Contracts
White Paper Healthcare-related organizations that lack control over contracts and other documents used in the operation of their business often make payments on expired contracts, incur late fees, and miss opportunities to renegotiate or terminate service... [20 May 2004]
Yahoo! takes a leaf out of Google's book
News Aside from buyouts, Yahoo! Yahoo! has altered its home page to showcase specialised search features, in a bid to drive traffic to the new tools and recapture ground from rival Google. Yahoo! added tabs for searches related to Images, Yellow Pages... [04 Nov 2003]
Symantec go on buying bender
News The transaction represents the latest in a slew of buyouts made by Symantec, which announced last week that it had acquired SafeWeb, a maker of secure network devices, for $26m in cash. Security software maker Symantec extended its string of recent... [28 Oct 2003]
Business Objects pays $820m for rival
News Business Objects has agreed to acquire fellow business reports software company Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820m, the latest in a series of buyouts reshaping the business software market. Business Objects, a French maker of software that... [21 Jul 2003]
