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.

  • He was also quoted as saying that his company, News Corp, would "certainly not be making takeovers of large or already over-capitalised companies" and that the Internet was "not the death-knell of the old" among media organizations.

  • 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.

  • Even allowing for the fact that companies trying to resist hostile takeovers will say and do almost anything to make their would-be acquirers look bad, the German reaction to the Vodafone offer has been striking for its vehemence and the nakedness of its nationalism.

  • In the wake of American Home Products' friendly bid for Warner-Lambert and Pfizer's $80 billion (or $74 billion, depending on who's counting) hostile counter-offer (click here to read an "Explainer" on hostile takeovers), expectations are growing that we're going to see a wave of mergers in the pharmaceutical industry.


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