Introduction: Mergers or acquisitions have become a norm for companies aiming at growth. Various companies resort to mergers and acquisition, to form strategic alliances. In majority of cases the underlying reason for these is to guarantee long-term sustained achievement of "fast profitable growth" for the business. In today's competitive world it is important for various companies to keep up with a rapidly increasing diversified global market and increased competition. In order to gain competitive advantage …showed first 75 words of 1655 total…

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