Case study: Building staff loyalty in mergers
US brewer Coors used a major communications strategy to generate support among 3,000 UK staff acquired in its merger with Bass.
Brewing up staff loyalty By Alex Blyth, writing in Personnel Today.
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Games without frontiers Mark Crail, managing editor of IRS Employment Review investigates the crucial role played by HR in handling the complex people issues thrown up by international acquisitions at GlaxoSmithKline and Total.
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