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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Similar firm in a different market. Supplier’s company. Easy money.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation. Infrastructure construction companies had a median TSR of 8% from 2011 through 2015.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Chinese Malls Hit With Low Traffic, Rising Vacancies, Plunging Rent, Massive Overcapacity

MishTalk

Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain. Malaysia-based Parkson (3368.HK), That's the banks' problem."

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Bond Girl, using the Twitter handle @munilass, had been posting commentary about state and city borrowing and issues beyond public finance since April 2011. That said, the rating agencies and most other market participants still appear to be light years away from understanding the true scope of Chicago’s financial problems.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2%