Totally agree DonkeyPunch re the old boys club. What a threat to the big boys Briggs could have been. Opportunity missed by them.
Buying companies only gives you scale and coverage, growing organically at the same times doubles or trebles your total impact to the market.
It is a shame for those involved in these cut backs, the redundancy message say's control cost, not attack the market.
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