overview
utilities
transport
finance
media/IT
chemicals
metals
food
auto/aero
property
infrastructure
retail
collapses
related
Profiles
& Notes:
telecoms
bubble
Aust & NZ
telecoms
telco
privatisations
telco
mergers &
acquisitions
IPOs
collectibles
prices
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overview
This note provides some benchmarks for the dotcom bubble
and for acquisitions and disposals during the telecommunication
booms and busts of the past twenty years.
It covers -
- utilities
- oil/gas, electricity and water
-
transport - rail and
shipping networks and logistics
- finance
- banking, broking, funds management and insurance
- media/IT
- media, information and communication technology companies
- chemicals
- pharmaceuticals and chemicals
- metals
- metals and mining
- food
& paper - food, beverage, consumer products,
paper and packaging companies
- auto
& aerospace - aerospace and auto companies
- property
- trophy buildings and other property
- infrastructure
- ports, roads and airports
- retail
and hospitality
- department and supermarket chains, pubs, casinos and
hotels
- collapses
- corporate and personal collapses since the Renaissance
A
perspective is provided in the note elsewhere
on this site regarding the prices achieved for collectibles
such as old master paintings and rare postage stamps and
regarding IPOs.
introduction
As US politician Everett Dirksen (1896- 1969) quipped
about the US Budget
A
billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up
to real money.
The
following pages highlight mergers, acquisitions, deacquisitions
and collapses as points of reference in considering the
telecommunications bubble
of earlier this decade and the associated giddiness in
dotcoms.
They are complemented by separate notes on telco privatisations
and acquisitions since
the mid-1980s.
next page (oil, gas,
electricity and water networks)
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