Takeover
What Takeover means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Takeover
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Reference: AQA
One business buys control of another, giving immediate market share, customers and capacity.
One business buys a controlling interest in another.
When one business buys a controlling interest (over 50% of shares) in another business.
Topics that use Takeover
- Expanding a business (AQA GCSE)
- Business growth (OCR GCSE)
- Business growth (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Diseconomies of scale
- Economies of scale
- External growth
- Internal (organic) growth
- Merger
- Organic growth
- Business growth
- Fixed Costs
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