How the Mighty Are Fallen
Executive Summary
One quick measure of a merger's success is its pre- and post-merger market share standings . At least in the US, the results of mergers haven't been great: Comparing the {pro forma} combinations of the pre-merged companies with their post-merged standings shows that all of them fell in the rankings after they merged.
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