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Your aqisition offer

Sally:

It sounds like a wonderful opportunity but I can't help in the least...but....  My company was "acquired" about ten years ago in an offer that I couldn't refuse.  I had hoped when I started the business that in ten years or so I would be bought out but I guess I was giving the competition a good run and they wanted me out of the way.  As in many situations like this they wanted to keep me on to insure the operation ran smoothly but within a year I left.  Their idea and philosophy of business and responsibility to the customer...as well as their willingness to abide by contractual agreements left a very sour taste in my horticultural mouth.  We went our separate ways and within a year the division that I was to run collapsed.
     Similar stories are plentiful...if you can you may want to ask what happened to Brent Heath when White Flower Farm absorbed his nursery in a 'friendly' take over that went very, very bad.
    Don't want to be negetive....this can and should be a wonderful opportunity...but get very, very good legal advise....maybe twice.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener
The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark
(Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)

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