Subject category:
Finance, Accounting and Control
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 5 October 2012
Revision date: 20-Nov-2012
Length: 19 pages
Data source: Published sources
Abstract
MCI's board of directors is considering competing bids from Verizon and Qwest. Qwest, a smaller company with a weaker balance sheet, is offering almost a billion dollars more. But Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has a history of successful mergers and acquisitions.
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Industry:
Size:
USD20 billion revenues, 210,000 employees
Other setting(s):
2005
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Abstract
MCI's board of directors is considering competing bids from Verizon and Qwest. Qwest, a smaller company with a weaker balance sheet, is offering almost a billion dollars more. But Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has a history of successful mergers and acquisitions.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD20 billion revenues, 210,000 employees
Other setting(s):
2005