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Bachelor thesis

The reasons for the Glencore IPO and the consequences for the company and for the markets

SONAR|HES-SO

    2013

1 vol.

Mémoire de bachelor: Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2013

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Bourse
Gestion financière
English This work aims to understand why a Swiss trading company, Glencore, with such a culture of secrecy went public. This study also aims to understand the consequences of this IPO, which led to the merger with Xstrata. This paper was done firstly, through a literature review and secondly, through a qualitative study conducted among people with the skills and knowledge required. The collected data was analyzed and assumptions and recommendations emerged. The results obtained have allowed me to say that there are several reasons why Glencore went public, one of the more important, for example, was to allow the merger with Xstrata to take place and become a larger and therefore more powerful player in the market. Most of the people interviewed thought that Glencore had put profits before ethics but that the Swiss government could not be held responsible for the behavior of Swiss firms abroad.
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
Notes
  • Haute école de gestion Genève
  • Economie d'entreprise
  • hesso:hegge
License
License undefined
Identifiers
  • RERO DOC 208976
  • RERO R007604369
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/314334
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