After the tariffs took effect, the company upped its prices $0.80 to $1.00 higher-per-pound then the price of magnesium alloy in any other country.â (U.S. Magnesium did not reply to Machine Design's offer to provide its side of the story.)
AAA |. The acquisition of one company (called the target company) by another (called the acquirer) that is accomplished not by coming to an agreement with the target company's management, but by going directly to the company's shareholders or fighting to replace management in order to get the acquisition approved.
Legally speaking, a merger requires two companies to consolidate into a new entity with a new ownership and management structure (ostensibly with members of each firm). An acquisition takes place when one company takes over all of the operational management decisions of another. The more common interpretive distinction is whether the purchase is friendly (merger) or hostile (acquisition). In practice, friendly mergers of equals do not take place very frequently.