Chicago — March 3, 2015 — The retail industry is poised for another busy year of mergers and acquisitions. A BDO USA, LLP survey of 100 retail chief financial officers found that 59 percent of them expect M&A activity in the retail industry will increase this year, even on top of last year’s strong results. This marks the most bullish forecast for deal flow seen from retail CFOs in the survey’s history. In fact, 16 percent of CFOs say M&A is the growth tactic they are most heavily focused on for 2015, up notably from just three percent in 2014. Seventy-three percent of CFOs expect M&A will take place primarily in the United States, and 15 percent expect Asia to see the most activity. –
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