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M&A

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Leading the charge

Wanxiang to buy a majority stake in US car battery maker
Aug 24, 2012 (WiC 161)

Paul Ryan, running mate of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, recently took Barack Obama to task for being soft on China, claiming that the US president had behaved like a “doormat” in ongoing trade disputes with Beijing. Then again the ...

“You got pandas, we got oil”

China announces a spate of acquisitions in Canada
Jul 27, 2012 (WiC 160)

China’s emperors began handing out pandas as gifts to smooth diplomatic relations 1,300 years ago. In the 1950s the government of the People’s Republic of China revived the tradition in more modern times. So it came as no surprise when it was ...

A cinematic love affair

A Dalian billionaire makes a bold purchase of US cinema giant, AMC
May 25, 2012 (WiC 151)

The first building dedicated to showing movies opened in July 1896 in New Orleans. It was called Vitascope Hall, after Thomas Edison’s Vitascope projectors. A couple of decades later three brothers had an inkling that motion pictures were ...

Drug deal gone wrong

China’s richest man is taking a state-owned firm to court
May 4, 2012 (WiC 148)

Hollywood films rarely show characters lighting up cigarettes nowadays. Not so for Hong Kong movie Love in the Puff, with an entire plot built around smoking. A hit across the border in mainland China, the film centres on a city ban on ...

Investors question motives behind an M&A deal
Mar 30, 2012 (WiC 144)

It’s not often that a written legal judgement is described as a “must-read”. But the New York Times clearly thought a decision delivered last month by Delaware’s Court of Chancery fell into the compelling category. The judge’s ...

Who needs aisles?

Walmart buys lossmaking Chinese online retailer
Mar 2, 2012 (WiC 140)

"When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song,” was the management advice from Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. But it’s unlikely that Walmart’s incoming China chief will spend his first days at headquarters in fancy dress. ...

Parking cash in Mercedes

CIC to get $50 billion of new funds; will it buy into top German car firm?
Jan 6, 2012 (WiC 133)

By any standards, $50 billion is a generous Christmas gift. But as Reuters reported on December 23, that was the amount of additional funding China Investment Corp (CIC) hopes to be getting in the fairly immediate future. The news agency said the ...

Fully throttled

Are foreign carmakers still welcome to invest?
Jan 6, 2012 (WiC 133)

Did a new policy – announced during the festive period – have foreign car bosses choking on their turkey? For the past three decades, foreign automakers have been encouraged to build car plants in China. Are they still welcome? Suddenly it ...

Sanyo’s white goods business bought by Chinese firm
Sep 16, 2011 (WiC 122)

In 1998, Haier chairman Zhang Ruimin became the first Chinese entrepreneur to give a speech at Harvard. And he grasped the opportunity, offering up his personal take on mergers and acquisitions, success in which he approximated to “reviving ...

Shanghai food company finally secures an overseas acquisition
Aug 26, 2011 (WiC 119)

Simon Manassen, a Jewish survivor of the Second World War, started out selling European foods out of the back of a van in Sydney in 1952. Since then the company that bears his name has had many different owners. In the seventies it was bought ...

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