Originally Posted by
BlackPeter
Maybe ... on the other hand - what good would it be to buy all these additional companies if they afterwards don't try to rationalise central functions (I think in Corp Speak this is "using the synergy effect")?
If you own 7 companies (or so) than it makes sense to align purchase department, admin, finance, legal department and so on. And unless you manage to grow all of these businesses in proportion to the savings it means job losses. Could be a good and proactive thing for the Warehouse to reduce cost without reducing service ... wondering why they didn't do that already years ago.
discl: not holding ... you still might be right ;);