Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto could easily turn out to be the worst deal ever

📆 5/15/2019 3:15 PM
📰 The Telegraph

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'Giant mergers rarely create value. On the contrary, reams of research have proven they are almost always highly destructive,' Ben Marlow writes

In assessing how Germany’s Bayer got its enormous $63bn takeover of American food giant Monsanto so wrong, it is worth remembering one simple fact that is consistently ignored by empire-building chief executives: giant mergers rarely create value.

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Oh they create value... but only one kind. ShareholderValue! Meh. RaceToTheBottom

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