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But, vikings and other \"barbarians\" have historically rarely done active hostile takeovers that weren't actually more closely related to widening their nomadic domains. The Mongols, for example, were a horse culture. Empire building was incidental to that.
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I was wondering where the marshals were, allowing fighters to go on field without armor, but the guys in the pic are evidently Viking re enactors, rather than SCAdians. I'm sure you were all on the edge of your seat. Seats?
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1. i want as little Hershey ownership of Cadbury as possible.
and as far as Barnes and Noble, i have no real opinion, unless Amazon was bidding. (i'd love to have a b&m amazon store nearby)
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@gStein_wondering if this will work: I already stopped eating Cadbury once they changed the recipe. It tastes like crap now. I don't see how Hershey could screw it up any further. I also don't see how Hershey won't run it into the ground. *sigh*
I guess I'll just wait for when more relatives bring me chocolate from France.
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@AshCatScram: my best friend runs a small chocolate factory in America, their buttercrunch is especially delicious.
www.chocolatesbyleopold.com/
@gStein_wondering if this will work:
Rest assured that a B&M presence is the last thing that a company like Amazon wants.
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I always picture the Pirate scene from Time Bandits. When they attack other financial buildings.
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I've always been more of a pirates or ninjas kinda dude. Vikings are sooo last century.
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Actually the Vikings, Goths and Mongols ... and others ... were often much easier to deal with than the machinations of the current business world. Groups like that would show up on your borders, demand some kind of payment, and once given it, they'd go away. If you didn't honor your commitment ... e.g. Emperor Valens and the Goths in the 370s ... or you try to contrive backdoor alliances and stab them in the back, as the Jin did did with the Mongols in the early 13th century ... you got yourself into a war. Pretty cut and dried. Lots less convoluted than \"proxy fights\" and \"creeping tender offers\" and SEC filings and all the rest of that stuff.
Maybe someone could explain what's evil about them.
Bigger companies can't eat up the small ones by themselves; they need the consent of the shareholders. That doesn't sound hostile. It sounds voluntary.
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@MooseOfReason: It could be argued that what's in the best interests of shareholders (e.g. making themselves incredibly rich) may not be in the best interests of the company or even the wider economy (as it's from small companies that we see the most innovation and dynamism)
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Sooo a transmorphing monster wolf/pig is trying to buy 3 other pigs cause he \"fancies some of that 3 little pig action\"? This is *not* the story I remember as a kid!
I really like this guy. I think I will go through all the videos he has up.
@Dinhilion: i get marketplace and marketplace whiteboard as podcasts, and planet money although they have been kinda slacking lately.
Hmmm...well it means...um...someone's buying a whole lot of stock and shooting themselves in their foot by creating artificial demand and increasing market price.
If anyone's interested, here> is a simple, layman's explanation of poison pill, and from there there's links to the other terms he used for ways the 3 Little Pigs discourage hostile takeovers. Is interesting.
Oh bless you Consumerist, I'm taking an M&A class and the prof thinks we already know these kinds of things. Now I won't feel like a total idiot during lectures!
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I prefer Monty Python's explanation better:
@B: That's what I always thing of when I hear the term. And I just watched that the other day.
@B: Beat me to it. That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the article.