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This could be a great move, but how S&N integrates it will be key, I'm not sold, we have so much potential here at S&N that is not being utilized. If somebody in upper management would just figure out how to make this company work we would not have to go out and buy up other companies.

The very same people who can't make it work are the ones responsible for the integration. Take it from there
 
























This could be a great move, but how S&N integrates it will be key, I'm not sold, we have so much potential here at S&N that is not being utilized. If somebody in upper management would just figure out how to make this company work we would not have to go out and buy up other companies.

A lot of those "somebodies" are going to be gone when the big S rolls back and scoops us up. Not a question of if but when. A lot of those "good old boys" are going to have to justify their continued existence in a professional, performance driven culture. No more BS!

I can't wait!
 
















I hope so, anything is better than this. So much potential wasted. Sad to see what could be but not have the tools and support to do it. It would be great to be a part of, but by the time it does happen I'm afraid I'll be gone.
 
























Hence the reason we are in 4th place and cannot see the leaders anymore. The acquisition will benefit more people than it will hurt, and frankly, most of those people will be happier somewhere else.
 








J&J or Stryker can buy S&N.
S&N has to get out of Recon soon after the mergers of the big 5.
Medtronic bought Covidien.

J&J has Acclarent already for ENT. Opportunity to be a full line ENT company.
Smith and Nephew knows ENT is profitable because they owned it in the past and used it as a cash cow.

Purchase Grace Medical for vent tubes and take them to the office.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01324271
 
















The bungling of this ill-conceived takeover could be the linchpin leading to final undoing of this once proud company. At the very least it will result in the overthrow of the current regime of bumbling idiots. These numb nuts could screw up a wet dream…literally

Bungling and linchpin. Maybe you meant "Lynch-pin" & bungling.