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All these activities will continue, be they driven by the chemical industry or by financial investors. These developments will provide opportunities for those who are skillful at valuations and post merger management, and who have the funds available whenever the opportunity arises. And over time, they will create a substantial advantage over those who are not successful with their acquisitions and have to write them off, or who do not have the money required in the first place. [Pg.59]

Specialty companies are facing an ever tougher environment. Eventually, the extent to which a company will manage to outperform other players, be they existing players, financial investors or new low-cost entrants, will depend on its ability to develop a strategy which will enable it to shape a leading competitive position in a market or arena that can allow it to tap into its advantages, and to achieve superior operational performance at the business unit level. [Pg.108]

At the time of writing, financial investors own majority stakes in more than 100 European chemical companies. A report published by the Chemical Industries Association and Cogency very conservatively estimates that at least EUR ten billion of assets remain available for acquisition in Europe, and buyout investors... [Pg.403]

Our own analysis of public-to-private chemical buyout transactions conducted between 1986 and 2004 shows this in impressive fashion (Fig. 30.4). Only a third of total deals conducted have reached any exit, and about 20 percent of the companies acquired between 1991 and 1995 are still owned by their financial investors. [Pg.412]

Leveraged buyouts have become an important part of the chemical industry and it seems that the spate of deals in the late 1990s will pick up speed. Financial investors have good reasons to invest in chemical companies and the top players have developed a set of value generation mechanisms that let them achieve above average results. [Pg.415]

From the perspective of financial investors, there are three factors that influence the degree of success the business s strategy and operations, conditions on the financial markets, and the aligned interest of management teams and financial sponsors. [Pg.420]

Finally, more new players will start to enter the market. These may be either incumbents experimenting with new business models and new market spaces such as DuPont, or there may be new players. We basically see three types of new entrants emerging functional speciahsts (i.e., infrastructure providers such as Vo-pak), market brokers such as CheMatch or Omnexus, or financial investors such as CVC and The Sterling Group. [Pg.38]

The extent to which the large specialty companies are able to take control of and shape the market will depend on their ability to outperform other players, be they financial investors or new entrants from the rest of the chemical industry. [Pg.65]

The benefits of consolidation can include superior capacity utilization, the sharing of best practice process improvements, the elimination of overlaps in the distribution system, and the use of geographically closer plants for sourcing. Research and development and sales and marketing expenses can also be cut back by eliminating duplications in operations. Some non-traditional players (e.g., financial investors) have been able to slash their sales, general and administration costs by as much as 40 percent on the back of consolidation moves. [Pg.174]

Unpaid loan or interest instalments to financial investor institutes and stakeholders shall also be carefully studied because fresh loans may be denied till some stringent conditions are fulfilled. [Pg.333]

Float public stock offerings when the market is high (but never ceding control), and buy back when the market is low. The proceeds of the stock offerings are used to pay down debt, part of which was issued previously to buy back stock. Unlike many financial investors who usually take companies public in order to pocket the proceeds. Huntsman uses this financial technique to strengthen its balance sheet and add to its flow of investment funds from depreciation and retained earnings. [Pg.31]

The philosophy of the financial investor, namely, to buy low and sell high, is often adopted by the synthetic organic chemist at the molecular level. (...) the profit margin can be substantial." (Paquette, 1990) [2] S... [Pg.528]


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