Types of Amalgamation
1. Merger: A merger is the coming together of two or more businesses to create a new organization. The old firms’ assets and liabilities are transferred to the newly established corporation, and they vanish as distinct legal entities.
- Horizontal Merger: Companies that are in the same industry and at the same stage of production are involved in a horizontal merger.
- Vertical Merger: This takes place between businesses in the same sector but at various manufacturing phases.
- Conglomerate Mergers: These include businesses with unconnected product or service offerings.
2. Absorption: An absorption occurs when one business absorbs one or more companies, and the absorbed business becomes a different entity. The absorbed firm is dissolved, while the absorbing corporation remains operational.
- Horizontal Absorption: The absorbed business is in the same industry and is producing goods at the same level.
- Vertical Absorption: The firm that is absorbed is at a different phase of the manufacturing cycle.
- Conglomerate Absorption: The absorbed firm has no connection to the absorbing corporation’s line of activity.
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