Answer: expanding into additional businesses that unlock possibilities for a comprehensive cost enhancement strategy.
Step-by-step explanation:
The options include:
purchasing a powerful and well-known brand name that could be transferred to the products of other businesses and thereby used as a lever for driving up the sales and profits of such businesses.
opening up new avenues for reducing costs by diversifying into closely related businesses such as direct-to-consumer streaming of media content.
leveraging existing resources and capabilities by expanding into related industries where these same resource strengths were key success factors and valuable competitive assets.
expanding into additional businesses that unlock possibilities for a comprehensive cost enhancement strategy.
expanding into industries whose technologies and products complemented its present media and entertainment businesses.
The least likely among Disney's considerations in completing its acquisition of Fox will be the expansion into additional businesses that unlock possibilities for a comprehensive cost enhancement strategy.