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1.    buying a controlling interest in a business by buying morę than 50% of its shares

2.    offer to buy all or most of the shares in a company at a given price during a given period of time so as to control it

3.    trying to buy a controlling interest in a business where the board does not recommend it to the shareholders and tries to fight it

4.    joining together of two or morę companies

5.    shop wliich sells goods to the generał public

6.    the system of people and things that are involved in getting a product front the place where it is madę to the person who buys it

7.    an occasion when someone suddenly buys a lot of shares in a company to take control of it

8.    sudden planned purchase of a large number of a company's shares at the beginning of a day's trading

9.    person or company wliich buys a stake in another company before making a hostile takeover bid

10.    enough shares to control a company

11.    company whose shares can be bouglit or sold on the Stock Exchange

12.    buying all the shares in a company by borrowing money against the security of the assets of the company to be bought

13.    group of subsidiary companies linked together and forming a group making very different types of products

14.    value of a company calailated by multiplying the price of its shares on the Stock Exchange by the number of shares issued

15.    buying a company at a lower price than its asset value and then selling its assets

16.    joining two business es together wliich deal with different stages in the production or sale of a product

17.    when a company takes over its competitors

18.    when a company obtains control of its customers

19.    when a company obtains control of its suppliers

20.    a group of independent organizations fonned in order to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

21.    a service wliich is used by the public, such as an electricity or gas supply or a train service

22.    a group of companies wliich try to fix the price or to regulate the supply of the product because tliey can then profit from this situation

23.    illegal agreement between the companies to charge the same price for competing products

24.    a company that buys or tries to buy another company that is in a weaker financial position

25.    something that a company does to make itself less attractive to another company that might want to buy it

26.    a person or organization that saves a company from financial difficulties or an unwanted change of ownership by putting money into the company or by buying it

27.    failure to carry out the temis of a contract, especially failure to pay back a debt

TAKEOVER

TAKEOVER BID

HOSTILE TAKEOVER

MERGER RETAILOUTLET SUPPLYCHAIN

RAID

DAWN RAID RAIDER

CONTROLLING INTEREST LISTED COMPANY LEVERAGED BUYOUT

CONGLOMERATES

MARKET CAPITALIZATION

ASSET-STRIPPING

VERTICAL INTEGRATION

HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION FORWARD INTEGRATION BACKWARI) INTEGRATION TRUST

UTIL1TY

CARTEL

PRICE FIXING

PREDATOR

POISON PILL

WHITE KNIGHT

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