Introduction One of the paramount pointers of the achievement or fiasco of a company is their capability to acquire/merge or to be acquired/merged. Businesses that can acquire or merge with other corporations have an opportunity to develop their capacity to furnace enterprises with other business frontrunners. They frequently enlarge their facilities internationally to obtain more incomes and spread their trademark. Companies, such as McDonald’s Corporation, have an opportunity to profit from attainments in methods that such companies as Sonic Corporation, could not. After evaluating the approaches that were exploited by McDonald’s Corporation to obtain Boston Market, its influence on the company, and its worldwide business-level and corporate-level stratagems, one is presented with an opportunity for better comprehension of the schemes that Sonic Corporation could advance to upsurge their incomes by the means acquisitions and mergers, along with business-level and corporate-level strategies they can advance to spread their facilities worldwide (Sonic Corporation, 2012). The Strategy that Led to the Merger or Acquisition Originated in San Bernandino almost 60 years ago, McDonald’s Corporation has progressed from a minor burger shop making to an eating place domain with system-extensive trades that has reached forty billion dollars (Funding Universe, 2012). The company had encountered a rapid extension in their trades during the last twenty years and conducted other attainments to upsurge their reserve and produce larger incomes for the company. McDonald’s wanted to endure its accomplishments by exploiting upon this strategy with the attainment of Boston Market Corporation fifteen years ago, which was slowly recovering from the lack of sales (Funding Universe, 2012). McDonald’s used a chance to apply their capitals and escalate their incomes along with the triumph of the newly introduced Boston Market trademark. At the moment of attainment, Boston Market still recollected more than eight hundred openings and the company produced an income of six hundred million dollars, demonstrating to be an astute gaining for McDonald’s on that stage. “Though McDonald’s experienced success with Boston Market Corporation as an acquisition, McDonald’s was unable to make the profits that they anticipated” (Funding Universe, 2012, para. 3). McDonald’s Made for You scheme that delivered personalized snacks to the consumers amplified the excellence of foodstuff that was provided; however, it augmented the amenity interval and became work concentrated as well. This occasion was of assistance to drop trades, and McDonald’s received even more complications when “it was discovered that the corporation was adding beef extract to the vegetable oil used to cook the fries, despite the fact that it had been advertised that McDonald’s used 100% vegetable oil” (Funding Universe, 2012, para. 4). With lawsuit growing from the fraud, McDonald’s mislaid more commerce as they turn out to be attached as an unnatural eatery, which triggered them to rearrange their list of options in order to reveal a more health-aware customer populace. McDonald’s was enforced to reduce Chipotle Mexican Grille and Donatos Pizzeria in an exertion to center their