Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At the time of the merger, the combined revenues of Gresham and Open Microsystems totaled roughly $30 million. In only a year and a half, that has grown to $50 million. For Groves, though, the merger was a success in another sense--as "a way to build a bridge that...
"There are almost no short-term cost savings [in a merger] if you do it right," says Fred Zimmerman. He has been on 16 company boards as a small businessman turned professor (of engineering and international management) at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He counsels would-be acquirers...
All of which can make small-company combinations harder to arrange than big buyouts. John Mavredakis, senior manager of the Houlihan Lokey investment bank, has helped arrange both types. "When we work with large corporations, everything is methodical and rational," he says. "With smaller companies, emotions come much more into...
Tom Volz, president of the Columbia, S.C., visitors' bureau, has advanced prostate cancer; he's been given two to three years to live. A few months ago, he received the funding for his viatical settlement, which handed him $58,500, or roughly 40% of his $150,000 policy. "There are...
Last May the North American Securities Administrators Association cited viatical scams as one of the country's top 10 financial cons. "I like a lot of people in this industry, but I don't trust a lot of them, and that's sad," says Carole Fiedler, of Sausalito, Calif., an...