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The parent company of QVC has agreed to buy rival Home Shopping Network for $2.1 billion in stock. Liberty Interactive Corp. already owns 38 percent of HSNi and the deal announced Thursday includes the remaining 62 percent.

HSN shareholders will receive 1.65 shares of QVC’s stock for each share of HSN. Being that HSN’s stock closed Wednesday at $40.36, the deal price is equivalent to a 29 percent premium.

 

Liberty said the acquisition would have various benefits, including increased scale and competitive position for QVC, “meaningful synergies through cost reduction and revenue growth opportunities,” optimized programming across five U.S. networks and “cross marketing to better engage existing and potential customers.”

Liberty Interactive President and CEO Greg Maffei said in a statement that the two home shopping networks combined each year to produce over 55,000 hours of shoppable video content. He said the value of QVC, HSNi and zulily, the Seattle-based e-commerce company Liberty bought in August 2015 for $2.6 billion, will be enhanced further later this year when QVC Group becomes an asset-backed stock as part of the previously announced split-off of Liberty Ventures.

 

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NO!!!!!!! 

I promise to remind myself every day that I am strong, courageous, and resilient.
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I thought that happened a long time ago 

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive what could go right.
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Interesting news. Will have to see how this changes HSN. 

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@butterfly123 wrote:

Interesting news. Will have to see how this changes HSN. 


@butterfly123....that is what I am afraid of.

I promise to remind myself every day that I am strong, courageous, and resilient.
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I was just reading about this on Fox Business News, very interesting to see what happens!

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Wow, I don't do a lot of shopping anymore but I do enjoy watching many shows on HSN as opposed to QVC.  Whatever happened to anti-trust laws?

 

 

For me, this is a bummer.

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Re: QVC Buys HSN

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@catwhisperer wrote:

@butterfly123 wrote:

Interesting news. Will have to see how this changes HSN. 


@butterfly123....that is what I am afraid of.


@catwhisperer @Hooty

I understand that the two shopping channels have very different programming, target age groups, the game arcade, and several other differences. Hopefully this will be taken into consideration.

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@catwhisperer wrote:

@butterfly123 wrote:

Interesting news. Will have to see how this changes HSN. 


@butterfly123....that is what I am afraid of.



@catwhisperer wrote:

@butterfly123 wrote:

Interesting news. Will have to see how this changes HSN. 


@butterfly123....that is what I am afraid of.


         Me too!

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Great... Now HSN will have a non working website too.....