Through growth through takeovers and acquisitions, companies seek to harness the resources, potential, skills, and strength of other companies to build their own business strategy. There are various motives for companies to choose a merger and acquisition strategy, and some of the most important are: entering new markets, expanding product and service offerings, reducing competition, access to new distribution channels and suppliers, developing new products, etc. is shown in this paper is a presentation of the impact of takeovers and acquisitions on the change in the size of the enterprise. Additionally, the aim is to analyze the use of takeovers and acquisitions by domestic and foreign investors in order to draw conclusions about the frequency of use. One of the most important goals is certainly to show the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the company 's operations, which is one of the main reasons why the research section analyzes the takeover of Vinoplod Vinarija by Badel in 1862. In the theoretical part of the paper, a theoretical overview of takeovers and acquisitions is given, with differentiation of these two concepts and differentiation in relation to mergers as a very common status change. The takeover can be friendly and in that case it is an acquisition and hostile, ie in this case it is a takeover. It is based on the fact that the parent company takes over one or more companies, whereby those same companies usually cease to exist. The takeover can be minority or majority, which ultimately greatly affects the business of the acquired company. The empirical part of the paper analyzes the impact of the takeover of Vinoplod-Vinarija by Badel in 1862. It is a friendly, horizontal takeover, which also transformed the business of the acquired company since it was also at high risk of business failure. This takeover is very important because of the subcontractors of the company Vinoplod-Vinarija, and ultimately the negative impact on their business is reduced.