International and Emerging Markets Blog

Lessons in international growth from British high fliers

Thursday, January 05, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Thought leadership | Tags: business, report, growth, UK, survey, international, insight, value, success, advice, expansion, sales, International Track 100, overseas, Grow Global, foreign

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How have the UK’s most successful companies for fastest-growing international sales achieved their overseas success? Our latest report discovered what these companies have in common and how they have driven overseas sales and built real value.

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Indian M&A deal value has remained relatively high on average

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: | Tags: India, investment, global, India Watch, infrastructure, South Asia Group, deals, Anuj Chande, value, Pankaj Karna

The decline of the global economic environment has had a predictably negative effect on Indian Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity. M&A deal volumes and values fell in the first 2 months of the year in comparison to the corresponding periods over 2008 and 2007. The total number of M&A deals in this period stood at 35 - down from 99 in 2008. With the fall in the volume of deals, there has also been a fall in the value. In the first 2 months of the year, the total value of the 35 deals stood at $1.2 billion - down from $4.6 billion over the same period in 2008.

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