Acquisition growth strategies have always been popular because through acquisition, a company can ‘acquire’ far more than just additional revenue.
The proposed merger of equals between Praxair, Inc. and The Linde Group continues to gather pace toward a hoped-for Q2 transaction, and yet reportedly faces ongoing challenges from German unions.
In 2015, the European market was valued at €16.7bn ($18.6bn). Growth has been relatively flat in most Western European markets, whereas their Eastern European counterparts have fared slightly better.
The dawn of another week, and the dawn of potentially another high-profile tranche of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) matters across industry.
Despite being the smallest of the regional markets in the US, the Rocky Mountains is home to a robust and dynamic industrial gas business.
Whatever happened to organic growth in the $72bn global industrial gases business?
They say that ‘a week in politics is a long time!” Well, the relative rate of change in the gas cylinder business is, at times, following a similar comparison.
In 2015, the South American market was valued at $3.1bn, down from $3.8bn in 2014. A large proportion of this can be attributed to currency fluctuations in the main market of Brazil.
The prospective merger of equals between Praxair, Inc. and The Linde Group throws the spotlight on the market shares of each, just months after the same scrutiny had been applied in the wake of Air...
Back in April 2015, gas world posed the question, could there be room for one more big deal within the global industrial gases industry?
