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This 7 page paper examines the background and motivation behind the 2006 acquisition of the Colorado company Exabyte by Norway based Tandberg Data. The paper looks at the background of the two companies, the potential benefits and synergies of the merger and the financial aspects, including the cost, agreements and way that financing was raised. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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to competitors. The high-tech industries see a high level of competition and entrepreneurial companies are often snap top in acquisitions. However, an area of the technology industry which is often
overlooked of those of supporting technology; that these companies are also seeing acquisitions and mergers take place as the industry evolves. In 2006 Oslo, Norway-based Tandberg Data, Europes only data
storage company, announces it was going to make $28 million acquisition of the American company Exabyte, as a strategy to increase market share, increases product lines and as a way
of consolidating its operations due to changes in the environment and the threat posed by cheap disks and LTO (Woodie, 2006; Tandberg Data, 2006). To understand the value and aims
off this acquisition we can look at the background of both companies, considering why the acquisitions attractive and the potential benefits of such an acquisition. Tandberg Data was founded in
1933 as a radio manufacturing business, the company has developed a flair for innovation, including magnetic recording technology and the development of one of the tape storage platform Tandberg
SLR - Scalable Linear Recording (Tandberg Data, 2008). Tandberg Data is created as a separate business unit in 1979 following major organizational changes in the operation. It was in 1979
that the company was divided into a number of separate entities in order to assure that specific areas of interest, each of which carried the Tandberg name (Tandberg Data, 2008).
This allowed Tandberg Data to concentrate on its area of specialty. During the 1990s the company increased its presence in the data storage market, bringing to market several
information storage products which were based on the Quarter Inch Cartridge (QIC) technology from a 20 megabyte product in 1980 through to 1 gigabyte product in 1989.
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