Anchored largely on hype, they fell victim to flawed business models, and rapid industry consolidation.
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More money for a management team incapable of withstanding industry consolidation, changing consumer tastes or rising commodity costs.
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Speculation that more industry consolidation may be at hand resulted in investors bidding up other players in the paper industry.
Answer: Over the past decade or so Carlsberg has failed to prepare itself financially for the modern era of beer industry consolidation.
Grupo Modelo, the last major independent Mexican beer producer, has been acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, continuing a trend of industry consolidation.
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The lenders sport strong balance sheets and should benefit from industry consolidation.
Previous industry consolidation efforts have left customers at the mercy of a single, dominant vendor for each end market sphere, analog and digital.
Now the world's largest envelope manufacturer--it cranked out 37 billion last year--and fourth-largest commercial printer, Mail-Well offers a glimpse into an industry consolidation gone awry.
However the low prices of the individual HDDs seen before the floods has not returned due to industry consolidation and tight control of HDD inventories.
He discusses his recent research on audit industry consolidation in this article by Martha Lagace, which first appeared on the HBS Working Knowledge website.
However, in past HDD industry consolidation (this has been on-going for over 15 years now) acquiring companies have had a hard time retaining acquired market share.
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By far the biggest defense conglomerate to emerge from industry consolidation in the 1990s was Lockheed Martin, an amalgam of the eighth- and ninth-ranked Pentagon contractors.
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Industry consolidation has led to the closing of thousands of branches, while fees have been rising on a wide variety of services, from credit cards to certified checks.
There is no question we are witnessing a massive wave of banking industry consolidation, possibly greater than the last major wave following the recession of the early 1990s.
In the U.S., the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to big-box retailers and retail-industry consolidation that wiped once-popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.
As I learned from my experience in investment consulting, to effect an industry consolidation there has to be some common ground and agreement on the rules to play by.
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Another way investors stand to benefit from industry consolidation is through the publicly traded small to mid sized investment banking boutiques with merger and acquisition and capital raising capability.
Like others, it has been stretching for size: Industry consolidation has pushed out many of the pioneering families and left only ten companies to serve nearly 90% of the country's subscribers.
But craft brewers argue that their products are being pushed off the shelves as beer industry consolidation has given market leaders AB InBev and MillerCoors more control over wholesalers and retailers.
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It is true that industry consolidation has contributed to higher fares in some markets, although the principal cause of higher fares over the last several years has been higher oil prices.
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At retail, we had a terrific year growing comparable bookstore sales 4.5% for the quarter and 1.4% for the year, a result of our effective new merchandising efforts and continued industry consolidation.
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While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of industry consolidation and convergence.
Knight Ridder (nyse: KRI - news - people ) is more vulnerable to a hostile takeover than most media ventures in this age of industry consolidation because of its unique capital structure.
In the U.S., meanwhile, the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to the off-mall big-box retailers and to retail-industry consolidation that has jettisoned previously popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.
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Attracting big volume is important to the upstarts because it helps them attract more investment from Wall Street, and ultimately might spark another round of market industry consolidation, according to Josh Galper, managing principal of New York-based Vodia Group.
The marriage cements a decades-long trend in the airline industry toward consolidation.
To enable its receivables to grow, and to compete in an industry where consolidation has created huge players, it made sense to tie itself to a bank with deep pockets.
Within the airline industry too, consolidation was already overdue when the recession struck.
At the same time, the industry has experienced consolidation in the security service provider space, presenting a broader list of players for customers to consider.
The idea behind the cable bid is to act as a go-between in the industry's consolidation, then wriggle out, perhaps through a stockmarket listing.
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