NOOOOOOOO

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:02:35 -0400 (EDT)
gboyce <gboyce at badbelly.com> wrote:

> Speakeasy has been purchased by Best Buy:
> 
> http://www.speakeasy.net/press/pr/pr032707.php
The upside of this is it is being run as a wholly owned subsidiary. 
Some companies, allow their subsidiaries to run very independently. 
One very good example is Jordan's furniture that was purchased by
Berkshire-Hathaway in 1999. Barry and Eliot have run the company pretty
much the same, and now Barry has retired from the business, with the
major change is that You now only see Eliot in the commercials. 

I worked for Burger King in the '70s. For the most part, Pillsbury (its
parent at the time) pretty much let it run itself. BK did not have to
buy Pillsbury products, and while working with the food technology
people, they actually rejected Pillsbury cooking oil. However, they did
start to integrate the accounting department. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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