Medtronic buys Covidien



















The idiots up top bet the farm on consolidation to drive down cost of goods sold so that we could be more aggressive with contract offerings and J&J portfolio wrap arounds to lock up business. In one swift move MDT & COV have completely eradicated any advantage that we have been taking two years to create.

Our leaders have the foresight of a blind man banging his tin cup in the street.
 






We still have a significant advantage in account consolidation. It will take years for this intergration to take place and even more to get it functioning well as a unit. To think that we would be the only large company leveraging business units is absurd. We already have a head start, hopefully we win the race. I wonder who will by applied? Stryker...Zimmer?
 












Nobody is going to buy Stryker or Zimmer. Zimmer just bought Biomet & they are primarily an Ortho company. Stryker is at least diversified. Applied is a joke but is probably cash rich.
 












The idiots up top bet the farm on consolidation to drive down cost of goods sold so that we could be more aggressive with contract offerings and J&J portfolio wrap arounds to lock up business. In one swift move MDT & COV have completely eradicated any advantage that we have been taking two years to create.

Our leaders have the foresight of a blind man banging his tin cup in the street.

Any advantage that might have been gained from consolidation has been thwarted by the very "leaders" that envisioned this plan. From a contracting perspective, what has changed? Nothing. What advantage has the consolidation given us in our accounts? None. How are we doing business differently exactly? With all the changes made, they forgot to change the most fundamental part.

There is alot of talk about "showing up differently" but in reality, its business as usual. This Harmonic launch is a complete cluster fuck. "Increase price for this code, this one stays the same, this one gets discontinued, this one is 7+, this one only has ATT...". meanwhile, the customer is looking at you like you have a dick growing out of your forhead. Who thinks this shit up?

Maybe MDT will get it right and deliver the nail in the coffin. Hope not, but that remains to be seen.
 






Do you know what Medtronic and Covidien are lacking??? A legit biosurgery segment...AKA Baxter...Baxter just broke into two companies...Wonder why....If MDT acquires Baxter Biosurgery you can officially put the nail in Ethicons coffin...its already bad enough for us fighting against Floseal and Tisseel...the addition of more leverage would annihilate us.
 


















Redneck Maw is standing in line to buy her liquor while paw holds vodka in his left hand and diet coke in the right. Meanwhile she bought a two dollar scratch ticket looking at the guy behind paw holding a twelve pack of beer. "He kinda looks edumacated and I don't like them kind. He's goin to be my scratch ticket." Then her son taps on her shoulder ands says "C'mon maw I got work to do." Maw goes, "I don't give a dang, you can have your sister help you in the meth lap after she's done breast feeding your babies."

This is as ridiculous as your fears, smarten the fuck up because your competition isn't dumb.
 






Redneck Maw is standing in line to buy her liquor while paw holds vodka in his left hand and diet coke in the right. Meanwhile she bought a two dollar scratch ticket looking at the guy behind paw holding a twelve pack of beer. "He kinda looks edumacated and I don't like them kind. He's goin to be my scratch ticket." Then her son taps on her shoulder ands says "C'mon maw I got work to do." Maw goes, "I don't give a dang, you can have your sister help you in the meth lap after she's done breast feeding your babies."

This is as ridiculous as your fears, smarten the fuck up because your competition isn't dumb.

Nice picture of how Medtronic will look after buying out Covidien
 






Redneck Maw is standing in line to buy her liquor while paw holds vodka in his left hand and diet coke in the right. Meanwhile she bought a two dollar scratch ticket looking at the guy behind paw holding a twelve pack of beer. "He kinda looks edumacated and I don't like them kind. He's goin to be my scratch ticket." Then her son taps on her shoulder ands says "C'mon maw I got work to do." Maw goes, "I don't give a dang, you can have your sister help you in the meth lap after she's done breast feeding your babies."

This is as ridiculous as your fears, smarten the fuck up because your competition isn't dumb.

Obviously they aren't that dumb, their running a meth lab.
 






Redneck Maw is standing in line to buy her liquor while paw holds vodka in his left hand and diet coke in the right. Meanwhile she bought a two dollar scratch ticket looking at the guy behind paw holding a twelve pack of beer. "He kinda looks edumacated and I don't like them kind. He's goin to be my scratch ticket." Then her son taps on her shoulder ands says "C'mon maw I got work to do." Maw goes, "I don't give a dang, you can have your sister help you in the meth lap after she's done breast feeding your babies."

This is as ridiculous as your fears, smarten the fuck up because your competition isn't dumb.

Classic
 












In the next 6-9 months after the takeover, everyone within COV will be worrying about themselves not the business.

It is an excellent time to take advantage

Except there are no changes to sales personnel in any division but cardio. That has been announced by the integration leadership. Every sales person at Covidien is stoked about the merger. Zero fear. Can't wait to leverage the power of the largest Medical Device company in the world to gain contractual advantages. Life is good.
 






Except there are no changes to sales personnel in any division but cardio. That has been announced by the integration leadership. Every sales person at Covidien is stoked about the merger. Zero fear. Can't wait to leverage the power of the largest Medical Device company in the world to gain contractual advantages. Life is good.

Untrue