Mergers & takeovers dominos

Answers Acquisition Acquisition Acquisition

Virgin Active – Esporta Unilever- Ben & Jerry’s British Airways - Iberia

Google- YouTube Unilever- Slimfast Foods HP- Autonomy

Google- Motorola Mobility Microsoft- Skype HP- Compaq

Boots- D&A Ebay - Paypal Bridepoint- Pret A Manger

Boots- Alliance UniChem Orange – T Mobile Terra Firma – EMI

KKR (Venture Capital)- Alliance

Boots

KKR (Venture Capital)- Pets at

Home

Ferrovial- BAA

Cadbury – Green & Blacks Santander – Alliance and

Leicester

Coca Cola- Innocent

Kraft – Cadbury Santander – Abbey National Addidas – Reebok

Sky – Amstrad Lloyds TSB – HBOS Muller – Robert Wiseman

Dairies

L’Oreal – Body Shop Vigin Money – Northern Rock Mattel – HIT Entertainment

Walt Disney – Pixar P&G – Gillette Morrison’s - Safeway

Walt Disney – Marvel Granada – Carlton Morrison’s – Kiddicare

Tata- Corus News Corp – My Space Amazon – Love Film

Tata – Jaguar Land Rover ITV – Friends Reunited Tesco – Dobbies

TUI – First Choice Panasonic - Sanyo Heinz – HP Foods

Co-op – Sommerfield AOL – Time Warner Merlin Entertainments Group–

Tussauds Group

SAB Miller - Fosters Pearson - Edexcel