Business Terms Glossary
Acquisition
Definition of Acquisition
Acquisition has two meanings in business.
In some cases, an acquisition refers to the acquiring of supplies or services by the federal government with appropriated funds through purchase or lease.
A more commonly used definition refers to taking ownership of another business. In this case, acquisition defines the process of gaining control, possession or ownership of a private portfolio company by an operating company or conglomerate. In this usage, the term is frequently used in conjunction with the word merger, as in mergers and acquisitions or M&As.
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- Customer Relationship Management Software - Even so, most businesses realize some core benefits from implementing a CRM solution - including the following: Custom Acquisition & Retention...
- Effective Capital Campaigns - Whatever it is, make sure the funders realize the need for the capital purchase and the everyday impact of its acquisition...
- Family Business Succession Planning - The IBBA is the largest international, non-profit association operating exclusively for the benefit of people and firms engaged in the various aspects of a business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions...
- Selling to Competitors - Depending on the level of your relationships, it's even possible that the door could be opened for a frank discussion of a planned acquisition at some point in the future...
- Corporate Level Strategy - Today, more than ever, companies are banking on acquisitions as the exit strategy. If you're hoping for...
- Cash Flow - Investment cash flow is chiefly concerned with cash expenses and in-flows as they relate to capital expenditures and the acquisition or sale of assets...
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Title VII—Accounting Firms and Credit Rating Agencies - The Big 8 grew in size largely through their acquisitions of smaller accounting firms. In 1989, the Big 8...
- Leadership and the Cynefin Framework - Complex contexts deal with a lot in the business world, because any major change such as a bad quarter or a merger and acquisition can create an environment with unpredictability and flux. In...
- History Timeline: Sam Walton and Wal-Mart - Wal-Mart made its first acquisition by acquiring 16 Mohr-Values...
- Going Global - Another way to go global is through mergers and acquisitions with similar firms in other countries...
- Common Problems with Acquisitions - What are the most common problems when acquiring another company? To our mind, there are two common groupings of acquisition mistakes that can jeopardize the acquiring company's viability...
- Sam Walton and Wal-Mart - By far the most success Wal-Mart enjoyed was in their business expansion into the Americas utilizing a strategy that combined acquisition, partnership, and unilateral projects. The company's attempts to...
- Interview with GoodElements.com Founder Tim Quinn - I oversee and manage the company's investing and acquisition activities. I have been with American Express for more...
- The New Marketing - Customer acquisition costs trend lower as your customer loyalty goes up...
- Customer Acquisition Costs - Customer acquisition is much more than just acquiring customers. It is...
- The Art of Buying a Business - Unlike private equity firms or B2B acquisitions, a first time business owner usually become the chief...
- Customer Acquisition and Product Distribution Strategies - We can think of customer acquisition and product distribution as the book ends of your...
- Business Blogging Pros and Cons - By working information about new inventory into your blog, you can create a scenario in which your customers regularly check in to see if you have recent acquisitions that interest them...
- Ways to Buy a Business - Stock acquisitions involves either direct stock purchases from all the selling...
- Interview with Bryan Ward, Founder of Friendly Computers - In addition to repairing, maintaining and upgrading computer systems, the acquisition of Computer Renaissance better equipped Friendly Computers to offer...
- Showcasing Your Business - Customer acquisition is often a challenging and costly part of a...
- Attracting Angel Investors - Part 1 of 3 - A company with only 5% market share has no sustainable strategic advantage, and with out that advantage, they are an unattractive acquisition or IPO candidate. In part 2 of this series...
- Customer Acquisition & Retention (E-I-E-I-O) - Engage � The first step in any customer acquisition process is to engage your customers. Customer engagement is...
- Why You Should Take That Entrepreneurship Class - It teaches you possible ways of raising funds, organising your financial structure, how to manage growth, the role of venture capitalists, valuation of companies, acquisitions, and building strategies. All in all, it touches on...
- Site Acquisition for Development Entrepreneurs - Don�t forget to include plenty of time for the acquisition process and construction process in your pro forma...
- Why Do Companies Acquire Other Companies? - The main alternatives to an acquisition strategy are internal growth and alliances...
- Customer Acquisition Costs - Customer acquisition is much more than just acquiring customers. It is...
- Interview with Hydra Founder and CEO Zac Brandenberg - Hydra, on the other hand, provides turnkey customer acquisition for direct response advertisers. Unlike them, Hydra only charges...
- 504 Loans - Loan proceeds can be used for a wide range of capital projects such as land purchases, new construction, existing building purchases & renovation, the acquisition of machinery, and the expansion of existing facilities...
- Common Venture Capital Legal Terms and Conditions - The most common liquidity events are IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) or company acquisitions...
- Merchant Cash Advances - If you need cash for inventory purchases, business expansion, remodeling, acquisition, advertising or any other needs you have for your...
- Effective Capital Campaigns - Whatever it is, make sure the funders realize the need for the capital purchase and the everyday impact of its acquisition...
- My Competitor Raised $50 Million - Great! - Even if acquisition interest is a few years off, you'll be...
- Cash Flow - Investment cash flow is chiefly concerned with cash expenses and in-flows as they relate to capital expenditures and the acquisition or sale of assets...
- Leadership and the Cynefin Framework - Complex contexts deal with a lot in the business world, because any major change such as a bad quarter or a merger and acquisition can create an environment with unpredictability and flux. In...
- Going Global - Another way to go global is through mergers and acquisitions with similar firms in other countries...
- Interview with Convergence Capital Partners Founder Alex Kasdan - We help them with divestitures, sales, acquisitions and financings...
- Interview with Hydra Founder and CEO Zac Brandenberg - Hydra, on the other hand, provides turnkey customer acquisition for direct response advertisers. Unlike them, Hydra only charges...
- Customer Relationship Management Software - Even so, most businesses realize some core benefits from implementing a CRM solution - including the following: Custom Acquisition & Retention...
- Ways to Buy a Business - Stock acquisitions involves either direct stock purchases from all the selling...
- Corporate Level Strategy - Today, more than ever, companies are banking on acquisitions as the exit strategy. If you're hoping for...
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Title VII—Accounting Firms and Credit Rating Agencies - The Big 8 grew in size largely through their acquisitions of smaller accounting firms. In 1989, the Big 8...
- History Timeline: Sam Walton and Wal-Mart - Wal-Mart made its first acquisition by acquiring 16 Mohr-Values...
- Sam Walton and Wal-Mart - By far the most success Wal-Mart enjoyed was in their business expansion into the Americas utilizing a strategy that combined acquisition, partnership, and unilateral projects. The company's attempts to...
- Five Small Business New Year's Resolutions for 2009 - Focus on generating more revenue out of existing customers and clientele, rather than emphasizing new customer acquisition or new lines of business. With new businesses opportunities...
- Caps on SBA Goodwill Financing - In other words, it's the difference between the price paid for a company acquisition and its fair market value...
- Business Card Designs - No matter your budget, these simple tips will enable you to create business cards that put yourself and your organization on the profitable road to customer retention and acquisition...
- New Search Engine for Microsoft - This is a big evolution in search technology, powered in large part we guess by Microsoft's acquisition of a company called Fast Search and Transfer...
- Basics of Valuing and Acquiring Commercial Real Estate - However, if the fundamentals of valuation and acquisition are ignored you get chaos. Here are four ways...
- Success in Managing Growth - Some companies that are unable to work on innovation stay alive by expanding via acquisitions...
- Advertising 101 - At the same time, other business owners assume that advertising will solve all of their customer acquisition challenges...
- How Much Does It Cost to Advertise in Newspapers? - At the end of the day, it's all about what your customer acquisition costs. A $200,000 newspaper ads that gains 3...
- Business Blogging Pros and Cons - By working information about new inventory into your blog, you can create a scenario in which your customers regularly check in to see if you have recent acquisitions that interest them...
- Family Business Succession Planning - The IBBA is the largest international, non-profit association operating exclusively for the benefit of people and firms engaged in the various aspects of a business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions...
- Poof IPOs - The initial acquisition of companies and IPO roll-out is only the...
- Selling to Competitors - Depending on the level of your relationships, it's even possible that the door could be opened for a frank discussion of a planned acquisition at some point in the future...
- Documenting Your Exit Strategy - If you plan to leave the business sooner rather than later, it's better to document a strategy based on an outright sale, a merger or acquisition by a competitor, or a buyout from a partner...
- Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies - Let us take a look at the commonly available exit routes - Acquisition...
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Title IV - A company will often calculate pro-forma numbers before a merger or acquisition to model how the company will perform if it...
- Economics of Biomass Energy - Thus, cost and reliability of raw material acquisition are two important factors dictating the financial viability of...
- Google -- The Masterpiece of Sergey Brin - From that point on, Google has continued to expand through partnerships, acquisitions, new product developments, and of course advertising capabilities. As...
- Balance Sheet Interpretation Part IV: Current Assets - A large pile of cash could also mean that management is looking for an acquisition or simply return it to the owners if a profitable acquisition could not be found. Beware of the bladder theory...
- Common Problems with Acquisitions - What are the most common problems when acquiring another company? To our mind, there are two common groupings of acquisition mistakes that can jeopardize the acquiring company's viability...
- Interview with GoodElements.com Founder Tim Quinn - I oversee and manage the company's investing and acquisition activities. I have been with American Express for more...
- Interview with Bryan Ward, Founder of Friendly Computers - In addition to repairing, maintaining and upgrading computer systems, the acquisition of Computer Renaissance better equipped Friendly Computers to offer...
- Showcasing Your Business - Customer acquisition is often a challenging and costly part of a...
- Attracting Angel Investors - Part 1 of 3 - A company with only 5% market share has no sustainable strategic advantage, and with out that advantage, they are an unattractive acquisition or IPO candidate. In part 2 of this series...
- Customer Acquisition & Retention (E-I-E-I-O) - Engage � The first step in any customer acquisition process is to engage your customers. Customer engagement is...
- Why You Should Take That Entrepreneurship Class - It teaches you possible ways of raising funds, organising your financial structure, how to manage growth, the role of venture capitalists, valuation of companies, acquisitions, and building strategies. All in all, it touches on...
- Site Acquisition for Development Entrepreneurs - Don�t forget to include plenty of time for the acquisition process and construction process in your pro forma...
- Why Do Companies Acquire Other Companies? - The main alternatives to an acquisition strategy are internal growth and alliances...
- Venture Capital As A Prelude to Acquisition - These small acquisitions often end up being very strategic to the venture...
- Common Venture Capital Legal Terms and Conditions - The most common liquidity events are IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) or company acquisitions...
- Merchant Cash Advances - If you need cash for inventory purchases, business expansion, remodeling, acquisition, advertising or any other needs you have for your...
- Poof IPOs - The initial acquisition of companies and IPO roll-out is only the...
- Documenting Your Exit Strategy - If you plan to leave the business sooner rather than later, it's better to document a strategy based on an outright sale, a merger or acquisition by a competitor, or a buyout from a partner...
- Balance Sheet Interpretation Part IV: Current Assets - A large pile of cash could also mean that management is looking for an acquisition or simply return it to the owners if a profitable acquisition could not be found. Beware of the bladder theory...
- 504 Loans - Loan proceeds can be used for a wide range of capital projects such as land purchases, new construction, existing building purchases & renovation, the acquisition of machinery, and the expansion of existing facilities...
- How Much Does It Cost to Advertise in Newspapers? - At the end of the day, it's all about what your customer acquisition costs. A $200,000 newspaper ads that gains 3...
- My Competitor Raised $50 Million - Great! - Even if acquisition interest is a few years off, you'll be...
- Five Small Business New Year's Resolutions for 2009 - Focus on generating more revenue out of existing customers and clientele, rather than emphasizing new customer acquisition or new lines of business. With new businesses opportunities...
- Business Card Designs - No matter your budget, these simple tips will enable you to create business cards that put yourself and your organization on the profitable road to customer retention and acquisition...
- Basics of Valuing and Acquiring Commercial Real Estate - However, if the fundamentals of valuation and acquisition are ignored you get chaos. Here are four ways...
- Venture Capital As A Prelude to Acquisition - These small acquisitions often end up being very strategic to the venture...
- The Art of Buying a Business - Unlike private equity firms or B2B acquisitions, a first time business owner usually become the chief...
- Advertising 101 - At the same time, other business owners assume that advertising will solve all of their customer acquisition challenges...
- Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies - Let us take a look at the commonly available exit routes - Acquisition...
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Title IV - A company will often calculate pro-forma numbers before a merger or acquisition to model how the company will perform if it...
- Economics of Biomass Energy - Thus, cost and reliability of raw material acquisition are two important factors dictating the financial viability of...
- Google -- The Masterpiece of Sergey Brin - From that point on, Google has continued to expand through partnerships, acquisitions, new product developments, and of course advertising capabilities. As...
- Interview with Convergence Capital Partners Founder Alex Kasdan - We help them with divestitures, sales, acquisitions and financings...
- Caps on SBA Goodwill Financing - In other words, it's the difference between the price paid for a company acquisition and its fair market value...
- New Search Engine for Microsoft - This is a big evolution in search technology, powered in large part we guess by Microsoft's acquisition of a company called Fast Search and Transfer...
- Success in Managing Growth - Some companies that are unable to work on innovation stay alive by expanding via acquisitions...
- The New Marketing - Customer acquisition costs trend lower as your customer loyalty goes up...
- Customer Acquisition and Product Distribution Strategies - We can think of customer acquisition and product distribution as the book ends of your...
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