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- Language : English
- Subject : Economics
- Title : The Merge of Trizec and Horsham
- Grade : 80%
- School System : University
- Country : Canada
- Author Comments : Good Essay, lot of time put in.
- Teacher Comments : Language was only problem, excellent research
- Date : Nov.13th
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- The real estate industry has been hit hard in the 1990Æs. Many companies have
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- been struggling to maintain their position in a rapidly decreasing real estate market. The
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- largest Canadian based real estate company to experience an accumulation of debts is, the
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- once Calgary based, Trizec Corporations.1 Trizec Corporations is experiencing over 600
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- million dollars worth of outstanding debts and was near bankruptcy until the Toronto
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- based investment group, Horsham Incorporated, invested 600 million dollars in return for
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- 43% of the company in 1994.2 The merge between Trizec Corporations and Horsham
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- Incorporated would benefit both companies and propel these two companies into future
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- European projects.
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- Trizec Corporations was established in 1960 in Calgary, Alberta. Now, under the
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- control of Gregory Wilkins, Trizec is the countries largest publicly traded real estate
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- group.3 Their assets consist of 85 properties world wide, including Place Ville Marie in
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- Montreal and the U.S. based Hahn Company.4
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- Horsham Incorporated is led by Peter Munk who owns 10% of the equity and 80%
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- of votes through ownership of multiple voting shares. Horsham Incorporated has assets
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- including Clark Refining and Marketing Incorporated, 20% of American Barrick and real
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- estate in Berlin.5
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- The proposal in 1994 had Horsham paying 500 million dollars to receive a portion
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- of the debt that is convertible to common shares and then another 100 million dollars for
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- additional equity. The deal put a total value of 1.2 billion dollars into debt and
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- outstanding equity in Trizec.6 Horsham now owns 48% of Trizec and is trying to acquire
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- 52% which was recently approved by the boards of both companies. The new company
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- consisting of these two groups will be renamed Trizec Hahn Corporation.7
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- Both companies feel that the merge would benefit their future expansions because
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- by investment from an outside source Trizec would be able to improve their position in
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- the real estate market. The deal would also allow Trizec to keep their management in
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- control. Horsham believes that an investment in the largest real estate market in Canada
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- would initiate an attempt to salvage the real estate market.8
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- The merge of these two companies would also allow both Horsham and Trizec to
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- become more accessible to the European market. Horsham is using TrizecÆs real estate
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- advantage to expand in retail and commercial industries in Germany, Hungary, and
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- Central Europe. The major project that Horsham is now involved in is in Ludwigsfelde,
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- Germany. If successful Horsham will own the first outlet mall to receive endorsement
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- from a member of the royal family. Prince Charles will invest in the Horsham project in
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- order to improve the urban environment of Germany. Trizec is using the European
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- connections of Horsham to propel themselves into the real estate market of Europe.
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- Trizec has already been working with Polus Investments Ltd. of Budapest, therefore, the
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- two companies are planning on working independently on their initial projects in Europe.9
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- Trizec Corporations and Horsham Incorporation are now working together and
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- have expanded into Europe. A once struggling Trizec has now been saved by Horsham
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- and is ready to re-establish themselves in the Canadian real estate market. Trizec Hahn
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- Co. has now become the company that will lead the global real estate market into the next
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- millennium.
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- Endnotes
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- 1Kimberley Noble, "Horsham Throws Trizec a Lifeline," The Globe and Mail,
- 29 March 1994, sec.B, p. 1,14.
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- 2Kimberley Noble, "Horsham Throws Trizec a Lifeline," The Globe and Mail,
- 29 March 1994, sec B, p. 1,14.
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- 3Alan Freeman, "Horsham Properties Brings Royal Touch to German Project,"
- The Globe and Mail, 4 October 1996, sec B, p. 1,12.
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- 4John Meyer, Trizec- A Tradition of Excellence (Calgary: Corporate and Public Relations, 1985), 11.
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- 5Kimberley Noble, "Horsham Throws Trizec a Lifeline," The Globe and Mail,
- 29 March 1994, sec B, p. 1,14.
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- 6Kimberley Noble, "Horsham Throws Trizec a Lifeline," The Globe and Mail,
- 29 March 1994, sec B, p. 1,14.
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- 7"Horsham Offer for 52% of Trizec Approved," The Globe and Mail,
- 30 September 1996, sec B, p. 10.
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- 8Kimberley Noble, "Horsham Throws Trizec a Lifeline," The Globe and Mail,
- 29 March 1994, sec B, p. 1,14.
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- 9Alan Freeman, "Horsham Properties Bring Royal Touch to German Projects,"
- The Globe and Mail, 4 October 1996, sec B, p. 1,12.
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- Bibliography
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- Freeman, Alan. (1996, October 4). Horsham Properties bring royal touch to
- German project. The Globe and Mail, sec. B, p.1,12.
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- Horsham offer for 52% of Trizec approved. (1996, September 30). The Globe
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- Meyer, John. (1985). Trizec-A Tradition of Excellence. Calgary: Corporate and
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- Noble, Kimberley. (1994, March 29). Horsham throws Trizec a lifeline. The
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