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M&A

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Infant industry

Why latest Nestlé acquisition is all about Chinese babies
Aug 19, 2011 (WiC 118)

With more than $9 billion of cash in reserve, Nestlé has the resources for a little shopping – and has been doing so in China this year. The Swiss consumer group has announced two major deals so far in 2011. In April, it bought 60% of ...

No folly to buy Folli

China’s acquisitive Fosun has just bought into another Western brand
Jun 3, 2011 (WiC 109)

Warren Buffett put his investment strategy this way in his 1996 letter to shareholders: “We continue to make more money when snoring than when active… Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behaviour.” Guo Guangchang subscribes to the same ...

Why Su got out of the kitchen

France’s Groupe SEB takes control of China’s biggest cookware firm
Mar 25, 2011 (WiC 100)

Z hu Xinli, chairman at Huiyuan Juice, has a way with words. Defending himself from patriotic critics during Coke’s (aborted) bid for Huiyuan in 2009, Zhu insisted that all the best entrepreneurs “breed a company like a son, but sell it like ...

“They suck us like vampires”

A backlash grows against Chinese state companies buying Western firms
Jan 28, 2011 (WiC 93)

"A corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.” Such is the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of a ‘vampire’. There are ...

He owes it all to Sun Tzu

How highest-valued Chinese pharma firm grew through 13 acquisitions
Jan 21, 2011 (WiC 92)

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says to win a battle, it is important to keep the costs of a victory as low as possible. Ideally one should attain victory without a field battle, conquer hostile opponents without large-scale offensives and ...

EU to China: bail us out; don’t buy our companies
Jan 14, 2011 (WiC 91)

For Wieland Wagner, visiting 11 European countries in 14 days proved enlightening. Not because he had much to learn about Europe himself, but rather because of who he was travelling with. The journalist from German newspaper Der Spiegel had ...

Jeff Immelt caught out when negative China comments hit media…
Jul 9, 2010 (WiC 68)

Forget the carbonara and the cappuccino. Next time Jeff Immelt is in Rome, a little more circumspection will be on the menu. “I really worry about China. I am not sure that in the end they want any of us to win, or any of us to be ...

First Volvo, next…

Two new M&A deals could prove historic
Jun 4, 2010 (WiC 63)

When people think of China’s landmark M&A transaction in 2010, it’s likely that most will opt for the highest profile deal: Geely’s purchase of Volvo. Here was a company that most people in Europe and the US had never heard of, buying ...

Drunken advances?

Diageo wants to add premium Chinese liquor brand to its portfolio
Mar 26, 2010 (WiC 54)

British drinks maker Diageo says its strategy is to be a “total beverage alcohol” company, one that sells all kinds of drinks, from spirits to wine and beer. This month, the world’s largest spirits company took one step closer to realising ...

Danone drinks joint venture comes to an end. What lessons can be learned?
Nov 20, 2009 (WiC 39)

As one major foreign investor inked a new China deal this month, another was heading for the exit. Disney’s $3.6 billion theme park investment – in partnership with the Shanghai city government – is being greeted as a joint venture ...

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