On 01/31/2011 09:44 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > > *From:* Stephen A. > > > > Ø Wiki sez: "*NewCo* is a generic name used to refer to corporate > spin-offs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_spin-off> and > startups <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company> before they > are assigned a final name." > > > > Curious, eh? ... in the homonyminous reverberations <g> "Nuko" > > > > He wants to mass produce something, with shipments to start in a few > months, so he builds his own brand new company to manufacture it, > rather than having an established manufacturer do it. Does that make > any sense at all? > > > > > > Well, the assumption which you are making (without justification) is > that they (the Nuko-Newco) has not already arranged a partnership with > a manufacturer of similar products. That kind of pre-arrangement is > extremely easy to do in today's market where severe over-capacity and > unemployment exist (automobiles, for instance). All it takes is planning. >
Sure. In that case, Defkalion is just a shell company, taking money from Leonardo (Rossi's company) on one end and sending it off to the real manufacturer on the other end. To minimize costs, we'd expect the units to be drop shipped from the actual manufacturer to the end user, with no actual contact with Defkalion. And Defkalion looks very dispensable in this scenario. OTOH it's easy to come up with more Enron-ish scenarios in which the role of Defkalion would be much more central. As I said, the /only/ thing that militates against such an interpretation is the calorimetry.
