Merger

Mergers are of different types: there are the good ones, the bad ones and the ugly. In this paper, we will discuss the three good ones only. These include The Disney and Pixar merger, the Sirius and XM radio, and the Exxon and Mobil mergers (Top Corporate Mergers: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. n.d.).

The Walt Disney Company

Founded 16 October 1923. It offers quality family entertainment to the Americans as well globally. Together with its affiliates and subsidiaries, the Walt Disney Company is the leader regarding diversified global media enterprise and family entertainment comprising of five segments of the business namely: interactive media, consumer products, and studio entertainment, park and resorts, and media networks. The Walt Disney Company’s mission statement is to be among the leading providers and producers of information and entertainment. The company further seeks to develop the mainly profitable, innovative and creative entertainment experiences and other associated products globally using their portfolio of brands to differentiate their consumer products, services, and content. It has its headquarters in Burbank, CA. The company has about 166,000 workers all over the world (Pignataro, 2015).

Pixar Company

The Pixar Computer Animation Company was founded in 1986, February 3 and has its headquarters in California, Emeryville, United States. They sell refined computer hardware. Owing to its creation of the Pixar Image computer, it was renamed Pixar thus ending up selling this product. Its mission and vision statements can be summarized as combining world-class and proprietary technological imaginative talent to build up computer-animated characteristic films with the heart-warming and memorable character which appeals to audiences of every age. It about 1200 workers (Pignataro, 2015).

Sirius satellite radio

The Sirius Satellite Radio was founded on May 17, 1990, headquarters located in New York City. Regarding business, it offers pay-for-service radio, similar to the business replica for payment cable television. Talk channels, for example, Opie Radio, Howard 101, Howard 100, and Howard Stern’s have usual commercials whereas music channels presentation have no commercials. Its mission and vision statements can be summarized as maintaining and offering a work environment that promotes cooperation, professionalism and mutual respect. Sirius Satellite had over 1500 workers by 2012.

XM satellite

The XM Satellite Radio was founded in 1988 and has its headquarters in Washington, D.C in the United States. In Canada and the United States, it was operated by Sirius holdings as was one of the three satellite radio services. It offers pay-for-service radio similar to cable television. The general mission statement for SiriusXM is that it is an equivalent opportunity employer which do not discriminate based on perceived or actual race, sexual orientation, veteran status, familial status, marital status, gender identity, sex, handicap or disability, age, citizenship or alienage, ancestry, national origin, religion, color, creed or any other trait guarded by applicable local, state or federal laws (Pignataro, 2015).

Exxon Mobil Company

Statistics indicates that Exxon Mobil had a sum of 83,600 workers from 2001 to 2014 globally. It is a multinational gas and oil corporation based in the United States. Its headquarters is in Texas, Irving.

Exxon Company

Founded in 1882. It has developed businesses from all phases of petroleum industry ranging from oil fields to service stations. Further, it handles transportation of oil through the pipeline. Its other interests are mineral ores, for example, zinc. Lead and copper; chemicals, nuclear fuels, coal and natural gas.

Mobil

Headquartered in Virginia, Fairfax County. It deals with wide range of marine, aviation, industrial and automotive lubricants (Pignataro, 2015).

References

Pignataro, P. (2015). Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other restructurings: A practical guide to investment banking and private equity. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.

Top Corporate Mergers: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. (n.d.). Retrieved November 24, 2015, from http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/business/blog/best-and-worst-corporate-mergers/