My tiny, private, family-owned company is being bought out by a Big, Public Firm.
Good luck with that! Back in 1996, our medium-sized, family-owned company got bought out by one of the biggest international conglomerates in the publishing business which already owned a bunch of our (smaller) competitors. After much reorganization (which wasn't all the Dutch overlord's fault--we had been going through that in preparation to going on the sales block) and IMO some ridiculously high profit expectations by the Dutch (they wanted us to cover the smaller US companies' profit margins as well as our own), it seems to have settled down into a smoothly running operation ten years later. Of course, it helps that our former CEO is now the conglomerate's CEO (and one of Forbes "most powerful women in business," to boot!).
In today's shower news. I have a new soap made by a local guy- it is anise and shay butter. Interesting that my favorite lush soap is olive oil and fennel. the Lush soap is much more subtlly sented
I have no corporate buyout news, and no new soap. Nor do I have any more Diet Coke, which is vexing me to no end. Chocolate would be good too. Should I haul my lazy ass off the chair and walk over to the Chocolate Moose?
Maria! I have Diet Coke with Lime. The odds of someone buying out my company, which consists only of me, are very small.
Maria!!!!! I always vote yes for chocolate.
Oh beth, you are enabling the expansion of my already considerable girth. I should have some willpower, but I'll have the dark chocolate covered pretzels instead.
There's only 50 people in my company. We're not big by any stretch. If anyone wants to Read All About It, it's the press release on the right about the acquisition: [link]
Ooh, Diet Coke with Lime. I think that will nicely accompany the pretzels.
ChiKat, you are an enabler too. Thanks! How goes the identity theft case?
ChiKat, you are an enabler too. Thanks!
I do my best.
How goes the identity theft case?
Went to court last week for a hearing. They offered her 40 months in jail which she turned down, so the grand jury hearing is set for in a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, I keep finding more and more credit cards in the mail that I never applied for. So, I spend about 15-30 minutes each day calling credit card companies, explaining the situation and cancelling cards. It's Super Fun!
