Growth of firms

Q10 Assess, with diagrams, the gains from expanding by combining firms, as Nigeria's Prembly did with Kenya's Peleza in 2024.

Q10 Evaluate who benefits when one firm buys another, such as Mars acquiring Hotel Chocolat for GBP534 million.

Q2 Classify the Sony and Honda tie-up to build an electric car (joint venture and other arrangements).

Q7(b) Explain what organic growth means, using the extract on McDonald's new CosMc's cafe chain.

Q8 Evaluate the gains from expanding internally for a firm like Lidl, which opened 25 UK stores in 2023, with a diagram.

Q3 Identify why GSK chose to split away from Haleon in 2022.

Q7(b) Explain organic growth, using how Uniqlo expanded abroad from its Japanese base.

Q1 Classify Canadian National Railway's $27.2bn purchase of a rival cross-border rail operator.

Q1 Identify the form of integration when two Indian entertainment production companies agreed to combine in 2022.

Q10 Pick an industry and evaluate, with diagrams, what a firm gains by expanding through acquisition, as WestJet did with Sunwing Travel Group in 2022.

Q8 Evaluate the gains a firm might make from splitting off part of itself, as with an Australian mining demerger.

Q8 Assess how far merging delivers gains in growth, given PhotonLens (UK) tying up with China's Shadow Creator in 2021; diagrams needed.

Q7(b) Explain the meaning of horizontal integration as it appears in Extract A.

Q7(e) Discuss what the PSA Group-Fiat Chrysler merger could mean for employees and customers, using the extracts plus wider reading.

Q1 Electronic Arts agreed to take over Codemasters in December 2020. Identify the likely benefit to Electronic Arts. (more contestability / lower total costs / more competition / lower long-run average costs)

Q7(b) Explain the meaning of 'takeover' as it is used in Extract B's third paragraph.

Q1 The CMA investigated the proposed Sainsbury's/Asda merger in 2018. Identify the type of integration. (conglomerate / horizontal / backward vertical / forward vertical)