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 VietNamNet Bridge – The pay-TV market is believed to witness big changes in the time to come when a lot of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals are made and announced.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investors need to grab the opportunity to make investment decisions right now, in the “twilight.” The opportunity would slip out if it gets lighter, or the Vietnam’s national economy fully recovers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Merger and acquisition (M&A) was once considered the best way for enterprises to expand their business scale. However, the latest surveys on the post-M&A period showed 61 percent of the deals led businesses to failures.

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The value of M&A deals in 2013 is forecast to be at some $4 billion, lower than the record level made in 2012. However, experts believe the M&A market would continue rising with the average growth rate of 25-30 percent per annum.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mergers and acquisitions are expected to pick up pace this year despite a slow start to the year, mainly thanks to the increasing interest of foreign investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Spending $25 million to buy Highlands Coffee from a Vietnamese boss, Jollibee Group of the Philippines has taken steps to be considered very in developing this brand in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nurturing the ambition of turning Pho 24 into a world class brand, eventually Mr. Ly Quy Trung decided to sell this brand for $20 million.

The labor market is expected to see more and more M&A deals in the time to come when more foreign human resource firms come to Vietnam, the market which has become more attractive in their eyes.

There is a growing tendency of companies quitting the stock market to escape the “big sharks” who try to swallow them. Many others disapprove of listing shares on the bourse for the bear of being taken over one day.

VietNamNet Bridge – Technology startups have been trying to attract the investments from venture capital funds or sell stakes to foreign firms, because they need capital to develop.

The Bank of Tokyo’s investment in Vietinbank was the biggest merger and acquisition (M&A) deal in 2012. Foreign groups now keep pouring money into the insurance and building material enterprises.

The number of Vietnamese commercial banks would decrease from 39 currently to 13-15 by 2017, according to Stoxplus, a finance information service firm.

The current economic difficulties have brought the golden opportunities to the big tycoons to crush their quarries.

Foreign investors target the leading companies in key business fields, striving to increase their ownership ratios there to penetrate more deeply into the large market with 80 million consumers.

Merger and acquisition (M&A) plans are a topic of discussion at many banks’ shareholder’s meetings.

More foreign insurers have come to Vietnam in recent years. Joining forces with domestic partners in doing business is the way many of them have chosen to penetrate the local market.

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