Specific Details. Corporate Merger Assignment .  

The recent announcement made between Tim Horton’s and Burger King has stimulated serious discussion both in the United States and Canada. The text book definition of mergers and acquisitions states they are “both aspects of strategic management, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or new location, without creating a subsidiary, other child entity or using a joint venture.”

Please prepare summary of the Tim Horton’s and Burger King merger and discuss the following:

– Background of each company

– Your position (do you agree/disagree?)

– Who does it benefit more?

– The political argument (who really benefits?)

These articles will help you: (you can do your own research too)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/tim-hortons-burger-king-deal-helps-canada-take-big-slice-of-ma-frenzy/article20884308/

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-burger-king-agree-to-merger-deal-1.2746948

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/done-deal-tim-hortons-agrees-to-takeover-by-burger-king-1.1976444

http://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2014/09/23/tim_hortons_burger_king_deal_moves_ahead_as_us_cracks_down_on_tax_inversions.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-burger-king-reaction-u-s-cracks-down-on-tax-inversions-1.2774913

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/09/23/tim-hortons-burger-king-say-tie-up-going-ahead-despite-u-s-crackdown-on-inversions/

 

 

Tim Horton’s web site

http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/index.php

Burger King Website

http://www.burgerking.ca/

 

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