Navigating Acquisition: Grab's Remittance Market Entry Essay
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Task
Case questions and instruction & dataset are all in the file. Deliverables will be both PPT answering all the questions and the word document to state the thinking process and supplementry explanation.
Case overview:
a. Grab is looking to enter the remittance business
b. It has chosen Singapore as the country to launch
c. In addition to having an organic plan, Grab wants to make an acqusition of a physical remittance store to grow faster
d. Grab has identified a target for acquisition
e. There is limited data available on the target. Everything that Grab knows about the target is detailed out in the "Data" tab
Questions:
a. What is the market size of remmitance from Singapore to other countries? What is the size of the market that is relevant for Grab?
b. What are the key economics of the acquisition target (High level P&L and key metrics)? Grab is interested to analsyse per customer metrics such as how many txns does a typical customer make in a month, what is the value of this txn, etc?
c. Valuation - How much should Grab pay for the acquisition target?
d. What are the non-financial factors Grab should keep in mind if it were to acquire the target?
Instructions to candidates:
a. Kindly do whatever internet search you need to do to answer the questions
b. If the question requires some sort of modelling, kindly show all your workings
c. Clearly state all the assumptions you are making for your model
d. Make a short deck (4-5 slides) answering all the questions asked above about the case