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Asos’ £265m Acquisition of Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge

By Shivaum Bapu, Daniel Winsor, Mohammed Safayat, Nicole Phung and Pristie Sharma (UCL), Obielumani Amudo, Mayi Hughes, Devin Vasquez,...

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Feb 24, 20214 min read

Boohoo Group’s £55m Acquisition of Debenhams

By Hannah Farrell, Liam Smith, Liam Ryan and Erika Goodwin (Trinity College, Dublin), and Hirishika Rajasekaran, Vinay Naik, Luc Roberts...

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Feb 7, 20215 min read

Mondelez acquires healthy snack maker Hu

By Mariona Planella Boix, Ismael Fathy Martínez, Pau Rodríguez Coll (ESADE), Axel Mebarek, Pierre Pinsault (Grenoble École de Management)...

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Jan 31, 20213 min read

Alibaba Buying Out China's Sun Art Retail for $3.6B

By Ivan Chung, Justin Leung, Thomas Fujimoto (HKUST), Alexander Bergmüller, Huang Haozhe, Friedrich von Storch (IE BUSINESS SCHOOL)...

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Nov 26, 20206 min read

VF’s $2.1bn Acquisition of Supreme

By Jack Briody and James Muse (Columbia University), and Patrick Gorton, Shivaum Bapu, Daniel Winsor, Nicole Phung, Mohammed Safayat,...

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Nov 25, 20206 min read

TDR Capital’s £6.8bn acquisition of ASDA

By Greis Gaeta, Riccardo Colombo, Federico De Rosa, Lorenzo Mirone (Bocconi University), Jonathan Fuchs and Chiara Fulvi (LSE) Overview...

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Oct 15, 20204 min read

Retail M&A Deals Unravel in the Face of Coronavirus

By: Amarins Laanstra-Corn, Winston Shum, Roshni Padhi (Stanford) and Kritika Venkateswaran, Sreeja Mamillapalli, Aman Singla (NYU) Photo:...

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Sep 8, 202011 min read

PepsiCo’s $3.85 billion Acquisition of Rockstar Energy

PepsiCo has continued to diversify its product line through its most recent acquisition of Rockstar Energy Drinks.

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Mar 22, 20205 min read

LVMH’s $16.6bn Acquisition of Tiffany & Co.

LVMH is on a $16.6bn luxury shopping spree acquiring Tiffany & Co in its biggest takeover yet.

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Dec 29, 20197 min read

EssilorLuxottica's €7.1bn Acquisition of GrandVision

EssilorLuxottica, the French-Italian eyewear and lens manufacturer, is acquiring Grandvision to expand its optical retail platform.

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Sep 22, 20196 min read

Asahi’s $11.3 billion acquisition of AB InBev’s Australian operations

Weak investor appetite led AB InBev to scrap its plan to list its Asian business and instead to sell its Australian unit to Japan's Asahi.

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Aug 10, 20196 min read

Takeaway.com’s €930m acquisition of Delivery Hero Germany

In an attempt to ride the wave of technology sweeping the restaurant sector, Takeaway.com is acquiring the German company Delivery Hero.

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Mar 23, 20196 min read

Michael Kors’ $2.12bn acquisition of Versace

By Gustaf Baavhammar, Lukas Bruell, Christopher Leung (University of Warwick) | 14/12/2018 Overview of the deal Acquirer: Michael Kors....

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Dec 22, 20186 min read

Coca-Cola’s $5.1bn Acquisition of Costa Coffee

By Marin Lovin (UCL) 25/09/2018 | Overview of the deal Acquirer: Coca-Cola Company Target: Costa Limited Estimated value: $5.1bn...

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Sep 25, 20185 min read

PepsiCo Set to Acquire SodaStream for $3.2bn

By Niclas Hallberg, Harvey George (LSE) 17/09/2018 | Overview of the deal Acquirer: PepsiCo, Inc. Target: SodaStream International Ltd....

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Sep 17, 20185 min read

Sainsbury’s £10bn Purchase of Asda from Walmart

Overview of the deal Acquirer: Sainsbury’s Target: Asda Estimated value: £10bn Announcement date: April 2018 Advisors: Morgan Stanley,...

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Jul 12, 20185 min read

Keurig Green Mountain’s (JAB) $18.7 billion Acquisition of Dr Pepper Snapple

Overview of the deal Acquirer: Keurig Green Mountain (JAB Holding) Target: Dr Pepper Snapple Estimated value: $18.7 bn Announcement date:...

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Jun 25, 20184 min read

Amazon’s $13.7 billion Acquisition of Whole Foods

Overview of the deal Acquirer: Amazon Target: Whole Foods Market Inc. Deal value: $13.7 bn Announcement date: 06/17 Acquirer Advisors:...

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Jun 12, 20184 min read