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Journals / Journal of Business Economics and Finance / 2018 / Cilt: 7 - Sayı: 2

WAS THE DOLLAR TREE – FAMILY DOLLAR MERGER SYNERGIC?: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANALYSIS

Khamis M. BİLBEİSİ, C. R. NARAYANASWAMY, Chau DİNH

Pages
148–155
DOI
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Abstract

Purpose- Family Dollar and Dollar Tree were the second and the third largest firms in the discount variety store industry in the United States of America. In July 2014, Dollar Tree made an offer to acquire Family Dollar, citing potential synergy. In this study, we examined whether the expected benefits from the Dollar Tree-Family Dollar merger materialized.