Are you suggesting that the mergers like Time/AOL, HP/Compaq, Daimler/Chrysler, etc. were not smashing successes? Norm
P. J. Alling wrote: > It's seldom that the results of such a merger are better than building > the business you already have. Most such mergers result in > disappointment. (That doesn't stop them from happening however). A > classic example was Sperry and Burroughs merging in 1986 to take > advantage of their "Synergy", the final market share resulting from the > merger was less that either one had before the merger. Most seem to work > out that way. The spectacular successes, (which they are few and far > between), are what keep M&A groups going, but don't ask them about their > success ratio. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
