Acquisition Purchase

An Acquisition Purchase is a purchase in which an entity takes ownership of another entity's stock, equity interests, property or assets.

• AKA: Takeover.
• Context
  • It can range from being a Private Sector Acquisition to being a Public Sector Acquisition.
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• Example(s):
  • an Acqui-Hire Acquisition.
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• See: Appropriation, Total Asset Acquisition Cost, Customer Acquisition Cost, Consolidation.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/acquisition Retrieved:2021-11-3.
  • Acquisition may refer to:
    • Takeover, the purchase of one company by another
    • Mergers and acquisitions, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities
    • Procurement, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source
    • Library acquisitions, department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials
    • Military acquisition, the process of acquiring products for national defense
    • Acquiring bank, a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant
    • Acquisition (contract law), process by which the Federal Government of the U.S. acquires goods, services, and interests in real property
    • Acquisition (forensic process), the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics
    • Acquisition (linguistic), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language
    • Acquisition (psychology), learning
    • Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency
    • Acquisition (Star Trek: Enterprise)

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergers_and_acquisitions#Acquisition
  • An acquisition or takeover is the purchase of one business or company by another company or other business entity. Such purchase may be of 100%, or nearly 100%, of the assets or ownership equity of the acquired entity. Consolidation occurs when two companies combine to form a new enterprise altogether, and neither of the previous companies remains independently. Acquisitions are divided into "private" and "public" acquisitions, depending on whether the acquiree or merging company (also termed a target) is or is not listed on a public stock market. Some public companies rely on acquisitions as an important value creation strategy. An additional dimension or categorization consists of whether an acquisition is friendly or hostile.

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