{"id":1812981,"date":"2015-05-05T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/les-strategies-de-croissance-externe-plebiscitees\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:53:09","slug":"les-strategies-de-croissance-externe-plebiscitees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/les-strategies-de-croissance-externe-plebiscitees\/","title":{"rendered":"External growth strategies gain widespread approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A majority of executives believe that their external growth operations have been beneficial for their companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As &#8220;inorganic growth&#8221; operations have become more difficult to finance, the audit firm Grant Thornton, in partnership with Medef, has released an Ifop study conducted among 1,004 French executives. According to the findings, 93% of business leaders report being satisfied with this type of transaction: acquiring another company or business unit would be beneficial for brand image (90% of respondents) as well as for financial performance, since 74% believe that inorganic growth accelerates and supports the company&#8217;s &#8220;organic&#8221; growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For respondents, however, innovation or international expansion do not necessarily require acquiring another company. Reflecting a certain degree of economic gloom, only 45% are considering an acquisition over the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of executives believe that their inorganic growth operations have been beneficial for their companies. While &#8220;inorganic growth&#8221; transactions have become more difficult to finance, the audit firm Grant Thornton, in partnership with Medef, has released a study conducted by Ifop among 1,004 French executives. According to the findings, 93% of business leaders report being satisfied with this type of operation: acquiring another company or a business unit would be positive for brand image (90% of respondents) as well as for financial performance, as 74% believe that inorganic growth accelerates and supports the company&#8217;s &#8220;organic&#8221; growth. Conversely, respondents noted that innovation or international expansion does not necessarily require the acquisition of another company. In a sign of underlying economic sluggishness, only 45% of those surveyed are considering an acquisition over the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news-in-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813381,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812981\/revisions\/1813381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}