Fantasy M&A
The coronavirus crisis may kick-off wild corporate development activity. Here's who Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and others should buy.
In the middle of the Great Depression, Forrest Mars made a decision: he was going to buy a dog food company. For the creator of the Milky Way bar, and the catalyst behind one of America's largest candy-makers, Mars Inc., it wasn't the most natural of acquisitions.
"He was always prepared to consider outlandish ideas," a colleague later noted of Forrest. …