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About us...in the Sicilian newspaper
Man6636 - Summer A, 2008 - The class
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Groups of students in class
Man6636 - Summer A, 2008 - The class again!
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Thank you Maurizio
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Etna Valley and Etna HiTech
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Professor Faraci doing a lecture
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Back to back - The class of Man6636 on SummerB 2007
Back to back - The class of Man6636 on SummerA 2006
Back to back - The class of Man6636 on SummerB 2005
Back to back - The class of Man6724 on SummerB 2005
University of Catania (Italy)
The School of Business Economics and Management
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Since Chapter 7 is about acquisition strategies here is some news about a recent acquisition...
"Smucker buys Folgers"
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-06-04-smuckers-folgers_N.htm
It will be interesting to see if this acquisition from Proctor & Gamble will be successful. Richard Smucker (President and co-chief executive of Smucker) seems to think the products "complement" each other as the Smucker brand produces breakfast foods and Folgers is known for coffee.
P&G had announced in January that it would "split off" the Folgers brand in order to focus on its "higher growth businesses, such as health and beauty". It seems likely that this could be an extension of their strategy to build the Crest Pro-Health brand which was created after P&G acquired the Gillette Company in 2005.
I think it was interesting to see in this chapter how globally focused firms throughout the world have become. Manchester United is the perfect example of this. Manchester United is a club soccer team in England, but it's owned by Malcolm Glazer, an American, and sponsored by Nike, an American company.
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