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It’s the sound of music... Vivendi’s Universal Music has finally struck the right notes by agreeing to buy Bertelsmann’s BMG music publishing for $2.1 billion. This will make Universal the world’s largest seller of recorded music and also the leader in music publishing. The merger is subject to the approval of the US and European regulators. BMG owns more than one million copyrights for recording of various artists. This deal also sees the settlement of a legal dispute for Bertelsmann, who was sued by Vivendi over the Napster issue. Vivendi has agreed to settle the dispute though. An all new window for MS The war between the two IT titans, Microsoft and Google, continues to rage. In an answer to Google’s launch of free news archive service that allows internet users to explore articles printed centuries ago, Microsoft has gone a step ahead and launched its new search engine named Windows Live, which will supplement the old MSN Search. The new Windows Live Search is known to be more advanced and user-friendly and is being launched in 47 markets worldwide. This is also Microsoft’s weapon to battle competition in the field of online advertising from Google, which has a substantial hold over the market. Vodafone bundles itself to get better Vodafone – the world’s largest cellular service provider – has now decided to foray into the competitive fixed-line broadband market in the UK. It has also signed a deal with the telecom giant British Telecom’s wholesale wing. Vodafone aims at providing its customers with the advantage of availing the bundled packages including mobile and broadband services. Vodafone hopes to float the new service by the end of this year. Upon entering the highly competitive bundled services market, the mobile giant should ready itself to face stiff competition from O2, Orange and Virgin Mobile. OPEC decides to sustain the yield Staying on guard, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) confirmed that it would keep pumping crude at the existing levels. However, the eleven member group clarified that plummeting oil prices could force it to cut down production. OPEC will maintain its output quota at 28 million barrels per day. The cartel reasoned out saying that supplies are more than adequate to meet world demand. Including Iraq, which does not fall under the quota system, OPEC’s daily production (present) is almost close to 30 million barrels. The group, which is responsible for producing 40% of the world’s crude requirements, has wisely kept its options open – allowing space for changes during their next meeting in the month of December 2006. Lockheed Martin Corp. that engages in aeronautics, electronic systems, IT Services and space systems, has decided to downsize its commercial space business. It now wants to concentrate on greater profit yielding government space projects. This decision will narrow down options for companies that are willing to purchase or launch satellites. Lockheed also plans to sell its stake in two Russian rocket-launch joint ventures to concentrate on Pentagon space programs. Downsizing for rightsizing profits! Intel made its plans public, to cut 10,500 jobs which accounts for upto 10% of its employee strength globally. The job cut that is to conclude by mid-2007 has been termed to be in accordance with a restructuring plan and is supposed to help bring down costs by a whopping $6 billion over a span of three years. The move will propel Intel’s profitability, taking it a step ahead of rival chip maker AMD. Intel hopes to save $1 billion this year, $2 billion in 2007 and $3 billion in 2008, through the move. Majority of the job cuts are likely to occur in management profiles, the chip maker’s marketing departments and various other IT related job areas. Around 5,000 jobs have already been cut at Intel. Alan drops-off from Boeing to Ford Former Boeing Executive, Alan Mulally, has been appointed as the new Executive President and Chief Executive Officer of the American auto giant, Ford. This appointment came after Bill Ford gave up his post as a CEO; after struggling for five years to keep the wobbly auto company intact. Aged 61, Mulally has handled the posts of President and CEO at Boeing Commercial Airplanes since 2001. He has been associated with the aircraft manufacturer for the past thirtyseven years. Ford chose upon Mulally looking at his art to keep his customers satisfied, handling labour problems with ease and managing supplies. However, Bill Ford, who took charge as a CEO in October An IIPM Intelligence Unit Publication STRATEGIC INNOVATORS 105
E X E C U T I V E S U M M E R Y 2001, will continue to hold the office of Executive Chairman, working on strategically repositioning the company that his great-grandfather Henry Ford had established. His family still holds about 40% of total shares in Ford Motor. Thames’ Water up for sale... A group led by Qatar’s state-owned investment fund has emerged as the likely victor to buy Britain’s Thames Water for about $13.14 billion. The bid submitted by the Qatari fund supersedes the offer put forth by private equity group, Terra Firma. The course of events can turn in any direction as final offers are allowed to pour in till October 9, 2006. It is also known that British insurance company Prudential Plc. is trying to rope in Australia’s Macquarie Bank to jointly bid for Thames Water, UK’s largest supplier of public water, which is owned by the German utility, RWE AG. Losing faith of shareholders BAE, the European defence giant, is walking out of trapped plane-maker Airbus, as it has decided to sell-off its 20% stake in Airbus to the parent company European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) for $3.49 billion. BAE is looking forward to net proceeds of $2.25 billion and intends to return about $938.35 million to its shareholders by means of share buyback. If approved by BAE the shareholders, EADS – which currently owns 80% of total shares of Airbus – will be the sole owner. Heart drug lends a heart-attack to CEO Plavix, the biggest drug of Bristol-Myers Squibb, used to guard against heart related troubles, has dealt a stroke to Peter Dolan, the company’s CEO. Dolan, who has been charged of manhandling a patent settlement case related to the drug, has been fired. To add to Bristol’s woes, a Canadian drug-maker, Apotex, is known to have launched a generic version of Plavix – eating into 80% of Plavix’s market share. Time is changing for Time Warner... In order to trim its range of low-profit generating titles, Time Warner Inc.’s Time magazine arm, which is based in New York, is planning to put up its Time4Media and Parenting Group titles for sale in the market. The 18 print titles that are to be sold-off include Popular Science, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Skiing, Parenting and Babytalk. Most of the titles in question were acquired by the company in the year 2000, when Time had acquired Times Mirror Magazines from Tribune Co. for a price of $475 million. The sale should help the company garner a sum of around $300 million. The list of potential buyers includes names like Wind Point Partners, Providence Equity Partners Inc., Spectrum Equity Investors and Warburg Pincus. Virgin goes green route The flamboyant mogul, Sir Richard Branson, of Virgin Group has agreed to initiate the usage of green fuels. For the same, it has set aside an investment fund worth $400 million. The company’s deal backs California-based Cilion that is engaged in producing bio-ethanol from corn. The plans include constructing seven plants by the year 2009, which are expected to have an annual capacity of 1.7 billion litres. The green plan will gradually spread out to Britain, Europe and other parts of the globe. China to scale new heights The dragon country will soon house the second highest airport in the world at China’s South-Western province of Sichuan. It will stand at 4,280 metres above sea level, preceded only by Qamdo airport in Tibet. Chinese engineers have already initiated work on the airport, which is scheduled to be completed by the year 2008. The project covers a cost of $120.8 million with a passenger handling capacity of 330,000 annually. The idea of this project, which actually first originated about 13 years ago, received the final nod in May this year. 106 STRATEGIC INNOVATORS An IIPM Intelligence Unit Publication
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