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It's hard to believe, but there were nearly 200 electronics industry acquisitions in 2012. That's almost an acquisition per business day.
Here's a rundown, courtesy of Silicon Expert Technologies, of what went down in the M&A scene last year, including some highlighted tie-ups.
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Amazing picture of the merges…I didn't knew several. Very useful for my team
absolutely great data. its very helpful for the buyers and component engineers to plan their BOMs.
Very handy reference. It is interesting to look at all the mergers that happened last year in the electronics marketplace. If this summary is done each year, it would be interesting to also compare merger data anually.
These mergers and acquisitions are happening so fast that , many a familiar names are suddenly becoming part of history and your product BOM start looking obsolete.
This is some serious information. It would certainly benefit a lot of people out there. I hope similar study can be done for other areas as well. Really helps you keep a track of what went down in the year.
Interesting post, Brian. What do you think are some of the reasons behind so many mergers and acquisitions? Does it have to do something with the economy where as firms recover from recession they're looking towards mergers and acquisitions as a means to future growth? Or are there other reasons too?
“These mergers and acquisitions are happening so fast that , many a familiar names are suddenly becoming part of history and your product BOM start looking obsolete.”
@parabhakar: That's an interesting point. It would be interesting to see how companies are handling these mergers and acquisitions in their supply chains. I have a feeling that a lot of companies would have had to either change their vendors or at least some of their supply chain operations in some ways because of these mergers and acquisitions.
M&A is the trend now. If your company is in existence from few years and investors wants to make money just get it acquired and make money. If you want to kill some competions just acquire the competitive company and just kill that product. Its the people gets affected the most in company acquisitions.
@HM : Good set of advice for the business community but can it be done in a practical scenario ?
@HM: I agree. That seems to be a valid reason for a merger or acquisition whereby the company tries to grow in size and take advantage of economies of scale to kill a competition.