Harvey Karp: When things are going well, nighttime tuck-ins are a pure pleasure.
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"Most of what you are going to see from us are tuck-ins," Chief Executive Bill McDermott told Reuters, referring to smaller, typically technology-focused deals.
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We are efficient, and if we need to do something from an M&A perspective, it'll be small tuck-ins to fill out, you know, white spaces.
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Larger private-equity backed companies in the space between traditional middle market companies and large corporates are also pursuing such acquisitions, also known as tuck-ins or tack-ons.
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"We have a stated strategy of looking at acquisitions in the U.S.. In the southeast of the U.S. if there are tuck-ins available we would certainly be interested and look at them seriously," he said.
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"Most of the deals have been tack-ons or tuck-ins, which reflects the fact that equity values are at all time highs and companies are skittish about entering into a merger agreement with the legislative uncertainty," a senior banker said.
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Cash Directed Toward Deals: As consolidation continues among healthcare providers, Fitch expects UHS to continue to direct FCF towards acquisitions as evidenced by its activity in 2014-2016, although the company's actions were still more conservative than most of its peers.. Fitch expects acquisitions would be tuck-ins that expand acute care portfolio within existing markets or expand behavioral care settings.
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"We could go out now if we wanted to, but we made a decision that that's not what we're going to do, and we're going to continue to double down and invest, and therefore bring some more capital in to give us more optionality for strategic tuck-ins and product IP expansion, international expansion — and then look to the public markets [after] we do that," he said.
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Also completes its largest acquisition to date - Key Components, Inc - which included Gits, Marinco, Acme and Elliott. 2006 Actuant acquires D.L. Ricci, Precision Sure-Lock, Actown and BEP Marine. 2007 Actuant deploys $163 million of capital on five tuck-in acquisitions including Veha, Injectaseal, Maxima, TTF and BH Electronics. 2008 Actuant acquires TK Simplex and Superior Plant Services, both tuck-ins to the Industrial Segment.
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Many people prefer to receive paper letters, gaining the satisfaction of seeing their name carefully printed on a thick envelope in the letterbox. Using postal mail, it is possible to trade coupons, swap slips, postcards, stamps and anything else light and flat enough to fit inside an envelope, often called "tuck-ins". Many pen pals like to trade sheets of stickers, notecards and stationery sets. While the expansion of the Internet has reduced the number of traditional pen pals, pen pal clubs can nowadays be found on the Internet, in magazine columns, newspapers, and sometimes through clubs or special interest groups.
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