Bringing two companies together and integrating them successfully is one of the most difficult challenges in running and growing our businesses. The failure rates to achieve financial goals make for a steep climb.
Many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals fail to meet their financial goals due to a variety of factors. Check out these statistics:
• Harvard Business Review: Reports that between 70% to 90% of M&A deals fail to meet their financial objectives.
• KPMG: Found that 83% of mergers fail to boost shareholder returns.
• McKinsey & Company: Indicated that around 70% of M&A transactions fail to achieve the expected revenue synergies and value creation.
Throughout this series, I’ll look at seven of these failure modes in the context of Industrial M&A and provide tips that may prove useful.
Sound helpful? I encourage you to follow along to learn more.
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