Difficulties in Value Creation: Telecom New Zealand's Acquisition of Aapt Ltd.
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Toth, Zoltan
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Tourani-Rad, Alireza
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Auckland University of Technology
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I provide an overview of the Australian and New Zealand telecommunications markets through Telecom New Zealand’s (TCNZ) acquisition of AAPT Ltd in 2000 which amounted to more than NZ$2 billion. Few years later and after writing off approximately NZ$1 billion, TCNZ is considering a sell-off at a considerable
loss. I discuss the strategic reasons behind the acquisition and explain how smaller telcos are struggling to compete with the incumbent telecom in Australia. I further conduct an event study to assess the impact of the acquisition on both TCNZ’s and AAPT’s share prices and look at some of the post-acquisition issues. I finally provide a valuation analysis on the AAPT business.
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Telecom Corporation of New Zealand, AAPT Limited, Consolidation and merger of corporations, Telecommunication