KPMG
Cross-border merger and acquisition purchases by industry, 1996
Number of Deals and Value of Deals in US$ million
| Asia Pacific | Western Europe | Latin America | North America | Eastern Europe | ||||||
Deals |
Value |
Deals |
Value |
Deals |
Value |
Deals |
Value |
Deals |
Value |
|
| Agriculture and Horticulture | 8 |
232.522 |
10 |
25.788 |
2 |
13.998 |
9 |
85.755 |
||
| Air transport | 7 |
1,320.235 |
16 |
585.489 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
31.539 |
||
| Banking and finance | 62 |
4,119.344 |
173 |
12,683.732 |
4 |
7.223 |
71 |
2,959.879 |
3 |
724.000 |
| Business services | 74 |
1,502.940 |
271 |
7,595.836 |
9 |
1.300 |
311 |
4,529.995 |
||
| Chemical industry | 70 |
1,151.466 |
245 |
13,828.229 |
2 |
0 |
114 |
5,300.150 |
1 |
0 |
| Coal extraction and manufacture of solid fuel | 1 |
151.194 |
2 |
13.551 |
1 |
0 |
||||
| Commission agents | 5 |
1.339 |
5 |
0 |
3 |
262.980 |
1 |
0 |
||
| Construction | 25 |
1,084.423 |
56 |
6,043.304 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
54.600 |
||
| Dealing in scrap and waste materials | 1 |
21.600 |
3 |
7.000 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
||
| Education | 1 |
0 |
2 |
4.776 |
2 |
169.518 |
||||
| Electrical and electronic engineering | 78 |
3,552.249 |
173 |
2,856.643 |
2 |
8.600 |
111 |
3,748.282 |
1 |
0 |
| Extraction and preparation of metalliferous ores | 21 |
222.640 |
17 |
613.358 |
2 |
10.000 |
70 |
1,985.265 |
||
| Extraction of mineral oil and natural gas | 20 |
1,603.002 |
80 |
9,997.147 |
8 |
202.000 |
99 |
8,327.890 |
3 |
400.000 |
| Extraction of minerals not elsewhere specified | 2 |
8.310 |
10 |
198.778 |
1 |
14.000 |
14 |
651.343 |
||
| Fishing | 2 |
0 |
||||||||
| Food, drink and tobaccomanufacturing industries | 36 |
1,374.116 |
197 |
3,148.707 |
21 |
38.700 |
65 |
5,496.207 |
1 |
0 |
| Footwear and clothing industries | 5 |
0.830 |
20 |
80.858 |
10 |
82.500 |
||||
| Forestry | 2 |
104.651 |
1 |
8.664 |
||||||
| Hotels and catering | 34 |
1,454.031 |
33 |
1,487.516 |
37 |
1,168.778 |
||||
| Instrument engineering | 11 |
76.169 |
51 |
557.904 |
44 |
1,224.327 |
1 |
0.465 |
||
| Insurance, except for compulsory social security | 8 |
167.935 |
84 |
12,140.764 |
42 |
808.251 |
||||
| Manufacture of leather and leather goods | 1 |
10.000 |
1 |
146.473 |
1 |
10.000 |
||||
| Manufacture of metal goods not elsewhere specified | 11 |
498.610 |
40 |
220.906 |
29 |
467.310 |
2 |
0 |
||
| Manufacture of motor vehicles and parts thereof | 71 |
2,280.742 |
86 |
3,535.191 |
2 |
4.000 |
97 |
5,176.577 |
1 |
0 |
| Manufacture of non-metallic products | 25 |
693.616 |
72 |
1,166.680 |
5 |
728.217 |
17 |
945.195 |
2 |
21.298 |
| Manufacture of office machinery and data processing equipment | 14 |
673.362 |
17 |
578.793 |
28 |
360.778 |
||||
| Manufacture of othertransport equipment | 19 |
270.900 |
23 |
47.662 |
17 |
1,741.169 |
||||
| Manufacture of paper and paper products; printing and publishing | 26 |
2,341.441 |
112 |
3,450.302 |
3 |
480.500 |
75 |
4,700.055 |
1 |
38.796 |
| Mechanical engineering | 32 |
870.638 |
146 |
3,256.304 |
69 |
1,559.077 |
||||
| Medical and other health services: veterinary services | 6 |
71.070 |
10 |
4,183.890 |
19 |
827.843 |
||||
| Metal manufacturing | 35 |
2,131.333 |
47 |
1,022.684 |
3 |
8.000 |
20 |
110.208 |
1 |
30.480 |
| Mineral oil processing | 6 |
534.060 |
14 |
3,342.300 |
2 |
250.000 |
6 |
57.000 |
||
| Miscellaneous transport services and storage not elsewhere specified | 14 |
347.830 |
49 |
708.272 |
25 |
340.386 |
||||
| Other inland transport | 7 |
17.850 |
28 |
538.478 |
1 |
100.000 |
23 |
1,507.840 |
5 |
645.000 |
| Other manufacturing industries | 11 |
20.669 |
15 |
62.445 |
19 |
131.409 |
||||
| Other services provided to the general public | 1 |
10.000 |
||||||||
| Owning and dealing in real estate | 34 |
2,701.055 |
33 |
1,626.098 |
22 |
7,251.391 |
||||
| Personal services | 1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
8 |
171.200 |
||||
| Postal services and telecommunications | 44 |
1,060.984 |
92 |
10,433.573 |
4 |
4.000 |
88 |
3,869.871 |
1 |
0 |
| Processing of rubber and plastics | 33 |
591.245 |
70 |
1,268.323 |
1 |
0 |
33 |
1,055.194 |
||
| Production and distribution of electricity, gas and other forms of energy | 19 |
2,547.461 |
65 |
4,391.147 |
5 |
1,671.400 |
41 |
14,430.294 |
2 |
0 |
| Production of man-made fibres | 1 |
10.000 |
2 |
375.000 |
4 |
375.000 |
||||
| Railways | 4 |
0 |
1 |
700.000 |
||||||
| Recreational services and other cultural services | 34 |
3,003.507 |
81 |
3,303.201 |
1 |
129.418 |
56 |
1,589.187 |
||
| Renting of movables | 3 |
7.165 |
17 |
899.242 |
12 |
234.400 |
||||
| Repair of consumer goods and vehicles | 1 |
1.548 |
5 |
2.737 |
3 |
3.800 |
||||
| Research and development | 4 |
28.668 |
17 |
653.925 |
13 |
119.178 |
||||
| Retail distribution | 18 |
660.381 |
84 |
7,222.235 |
31 |
755.184 |
||||
| Sanitary services | 11 |
42.105 |
15 |
179.853 |
||||||
| Sea transport | 11 |
643.110 |
10 |
49.412 |
3 |
0 |
||||
| Supporting services to transport | 9 |
258.096 |
17 |
885.170 |
3 |
6.724 |
||||
| Textile industry | 9 |
48.827 |
21 |
57.800 |
6 |
49.081 |
||||
| Timber and wooden furniture industries | 2 |
0 |
19 |
275.190 |
10 |
130.859 |
||||
| Water supply industry | 7 |
493.815 |
5 |
722.000 |
||||||
| Wholesale distribution (except dealing in scrap andwaste materials) | 37 |
492.638 |
188 |
4,340.247 |
90 |
1,188.355 |
2 |
3.500 |
||
| Total | 1,009 |
40,965.805 |
2,857 |
130,458.983 |
81 |
3,671.356 |
1,911 |
87,662.343 |
28 |
1,863.539 |
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