Hostile Takeover Locked up Knocked up
Hostile Takeover: Locked up, Knocked up.I sat at my office desk, half-focussed on the figures on the screen as I wondered what was taking place in the conference room nearby. The office grapevine had been talking of mergers or takeovers for weeks now, and the team of expensively-dressed Chinese men who had arrived early that Friday morning certainly did nothing to quash that talk.Some of my co-workers had good reason to worry about the outcome of any talks: in this economy, it was virtually...