There was a pretty interesting article in yesterdays's Wall Street Journal, describing a similar acquisition and the problems that ensued. The industry was different (banking in the case of the article) but the envitable conflict of a mass consumer company trying to take over a high-end niche company is the same. Invariably, the mass consumer marketing company ends up saying it has better production methods and knows the customer better, with the effect of killing the culture that created the acquired business in the first place.
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