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P/F/499. ICI: history of mergers and acquisitions

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3000
DATE:
2006
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The paper examines the models of merger focusing on the 1926 merger of the UKs heavy chemical companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and the demerger of Zeneca from ICI in the 1990s. The historical and economic background of the ICI merger is described tracing the developments in the heavy chemical industry, the impact of Thatchers monetary policies on ICI, the changes in share concentration over the 1980s, the effects of the acquisition of the Unilever Speciality Chemicals Business by ICI, etc.

 

KEYWORDS: ICI, Imperial Chemical Industries, merger, acquisition,