The survey, however, showed that 73 per cent of respondents said they'd do at least one M&A in the next three years. Of those who'd done M&As, 85 per cent said they'd been successful. |
The resulting increase in profits was the dominant reason for M&As (33 per cent of respondents said this); another 28 per cent of respondents said M&As helped increase scale and reduce the time to market; and 22 per cent said they'd get into M&As to acquire new technologies. |