Architects of mergers and acquisition strategies typically set sights on which of the following objectives?

A. revamping a company's value chain
B. facilitating the employment of both offensive and defensive strategies
C. creating a more cost-efficient operation, expanding a company's geographic coverage, and extending a company's business into new product categories
D. gaining quick access to new technologies or other resources and competitive capabilities, and leading the convergence of industries whose boundaries are being blurred by changing technologies and new market opportunities
E. Two answers are correct: creating a more cost-efficient operation, expanding a company's geographic coverage, and extending a company's business into new product categories, and gaining quick access to new technologies or other resources and competitive capabilities, and leading the convergence of industries whose boundaries are being blurred by changing technologies and new market opportunities

Ans: E. Two answers are correct: creating a more cost-efficient operation, expanding a company's geographic coverage, and extending a company's business into new product categories, and gaining quick access to new technologies or other resources and competitive capabilities, and leading the convergence of industries whose boundaries are being blurred by changing technologies and new market opportunities