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In the News

Recent examples of corporate takeovers and mergers

Geoff Riley

17th February 2015

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This will be a regularly curated list of mergers and takeovers involving well-known businesses. We hope it will help students to find examples of acquisitions that can be explore and used in assignments

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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