Mergers and Acquisitions

Companies: Mergers and Acquisitions

Context:​

Joan Woolley, CEO of Xsellnet, a management solutions provider for mobile systems, is making a speech.​

​Task 2.

​Listen to part one and order the events in the company’s recent history.

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​Task 4

​Listen to part two, where Ms Woolley is answering a journalist’s question about why the merger failed.

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​Take notes and answer the following questions

Open Ended

List the four reasons she gives about why the merger failed.

Open Ended

Which reason does she say contributed most to the failure of the alliance?

​Teamwork and homework

​Write a short press release announcing that your company, Xsellnet, has won the ‘Technology Company of the Year’ award. Use the answers from part two to give a short history of the company. Look at the sample and the style guide in Writing 3 on Canvas.

Poll

Can you identify the different tenses we saw today better?

• Not very well

• Almost

• Some of them

• Certainly