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Example sentences for: takeovers
How can you use “takeovers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
If a company's management hasn't done right by its shareholders, takeovers are an appropriate remedy.
Most scholarly studies of hostile takeovers show they have little or no impact on productivity, profitability, or on the acquiring company's long-term stock price.
More strategic takeovers are likely; Hong Kong Electric and Hong Kong Bank are two prime targets.
The point is that the phrase "in play" is a useful cover for the fact that takeovers, particularly hostile ones, are often the result of companies' panicking at the prospect of losing something they never even knew they wanted until they realized they might not be able to have it.
One would like to believe this is because executives have realized that hostile takeovers only magnify the immense problems any company faces in trying to assimilate the operations of another, but it almost certainly has as much to do with the lofty prices that are being offered for companies these days.