cherryplinth;192817 Wrote: 
> 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)

So they were really talking about a service industry instead of a
manufacturing business with physical products, but other than that,
since the word "business" is in both, it is very similar.
> 
> but the envitable conflict of a mass consumer company trying to take
> over a high-end niche company is the same. Invariably,

And this is always true because I use the word "Invariably".  I also
use the word "Envitable" which is a cross between Evitable (as in
avoidable) and Enviable, just to confuse matters.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Buy your SB's now, because they ain't going to get any better.

If your premise was correct, then once a business reaches "mass
consumer marketing," it is doomed to fail from then on and destroy any
acquisitions it makes.

Do you really believe that nonsense?  Are your retirement investments
structured to follow that belief?  Ie, are you putting your money where
your mouth is?


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