Acquisitions are often made as part of a company's growth strategy when it is more beneficial to take over an existing firm's operations and niche compared to expanding on its own. Acquisitions are often paid in cash, the acquiring company's stock or a combination of both.
State Abbreviation - MA. State Capital - Boston. Largest City - Boston. Area - 10,555 square miles [Massachusetts is the 44th biggest state in the USA] Population - 6,692,824 (as of 2013)
Eastern Massachusetts, with Cape Ann. Cape Ann is a rocky cape in northeastern Massachusetts, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 30 miles northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport.