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...While banks such as Nomura Holdings and Merrill Lynch tend to focus on large deals, like the $30 billion takeover that formed Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group or the $3.5 billion marriage of cosmetics company Kao with Kanebo Cosmetics, the M&A mania has also spread to smaller companies. Terrie Lloyd, an M&A consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon...
...round of dealmaking will be more successful than the last one, when many firms got caught up in merger frenzy and ended up overpaying for sometimes dubious assets. Several of Europe's biggest companies succumbed, including German automaker DaimlerChrysler, which only recently unwound a costly investment in Japan's Mitsubishi Motors, and France's Vivendi Universal, which briefly teetered close to bankruptcy in 2002 after a huge acquisition binge by its former ceo Jean-Marie Messier. Morgan Stanley's Pereira contends that the latest activity is fundamentally different. "A lot of M&A then was driven by technology, media...
...Companies such as Subaru and Mitsubishi are tinkering with hybrid systems that place the electric motors at the wheels to give the vehicles more power and traction when they switch to four-wheel drive. For now, these types of hybrids are specifically designed to appeal to drivers who like to go off-road. However, the same layout will also become more common as the hybrid evolves and electric motors at the wheels become the primary source of power, Gauthier predicts. "Over time, you move to a vehicle where the internal combustion engine isn't connected to the driveline," Gauthier says...
...anyone harboredany doubts thathybrid cars arehot, last week the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show put them to rest. Carmakers practically ran over one another promoting their versions in attempts to catch up with Honda and Toyota, the technology's pioneers. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mazda, Mitsubishi, GM, Volkswagen and Porsche showed new models or talked about plans to sell them by the end of the decade at the latest. On display were not only regular hybrids, the kind powered by gasoline engines mated to electric motors, but also variations adding hydrogen...
...wigs and prepare for professional life, partnered with investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley for last week’s convention at the Marriot Hotel in Boston. The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations boasts a similarly impressive list of conference sponsors, including the Mitsubishi Corporation, Daimler-Chrysler, and the Daiwa Securities Group.Friedman and Vandenberg have taken a cue from such groups, and this month, they plan to move their operation off campus for a “JetBlue Day” in the Square, where they will hand out airline tickets and other freebies...