Strategic Planning: Acquiring Minds

Chart: Survey of companies, asking their reasons for wanting to acquire another company in the next 3 to 5 years.

By Inc. staff | 
 

MAY 1990

Of 1,873 active owners of companies with annual revenues of $2 million to $100 million, 53% would like to acquire another company in three to five years for one of these reasons:

Diversity 27%

Market share 24

New locations 18

Expanded facilities 12

New talent 8

New technology 6

Grow large enough 4

to go public

Other 1

Source: "The Pulse of the Middle Market 1989," BDO Seidman, New York City.

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