Takeovers and mergers

When starting a business, or running it for a long time, you should expect that the structure of the company won’t be the same forever.
There are a lot of tendencies, ways of its development & there is such a phenomena as takeovers & mergers.
When a company wants to introduce new products & services there are two options for it do it.
Large companies have the choice of innovating – developing new products, services or market themselves – or of buying another, smaller company with successful products.
If the other company is too big to acquire, another possibility is to merge or amalgamate with it.