Merger and Acquistion assignment

Analyze the acquisition or start-up of a new business in the food and retail industry, specifically in the bakery/cake business.
1. Analyze the company’s stock using your mergers and acquisitions skills, e.g. use some important concepts like short term business decisions, FDI, financial statement analysis, risk and return, stock valuation, among others.

2. Your project should include, but not restricted to the following sections:

a. A brief historical background of the existing or new company in terms of performance,
benchmarking against industry, and major changes in the past or foreseeable future.

b. Analysis of company using finance tools learnt throughout the course. Knowledge and skills of other fields like economics, management, marketing, accounting among others can also be complemented to your project if you feel it would add value to your recommendations.

c. A simple forecast of what you would expect of the share price to be, based on your
underlying model(s), and other information like microeconomic/ macroeconomic news.