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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7921784" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I wouldn't necessarily bet on it being the decision-makers at Asmodee since they, in turn, are owned by an equity capital/investment corporation - and they make their money by buying other companies, stripping them down of 'excess' liabilities, and selling them for a profit.</p><p></p><p>Think of what Bain and others did when they took over Toys R Us. Not only did they buy the company, they saddled it with the debt they took on to buy it in the first place, forcing it into bankruptcy which allowed them to hold off on any claims employees had to compensation or severance, and then retained the trademarks for lean and mean "store within a store" toy sections. So not only do they get to make profit selling toys with the overhead of a brick and mortar borne by a department store rather than themselves, they didn't have to pay any of the 20,000 odd employees they savagely dropped from the workforce. Eurazeo might not be that transparently predatory, but I think something similar is going on. They've turfed out a segment of their property's property (Asmodee and FFG, respectively) in order to improve the attractiveness of FFG for when they spin it off and give them a modest little profit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7921784, member: 3400"] I wouldn't necessarily bet on it being the decision-makers at Asmodee since they, in turn, are owned by an equity capital/investment corporation - and they make their money by buying other companies, stripping them down of 'excess' liabilities, and selling them for a profit. Think of what Bain and others did when they took over Toys R Us. Not only did they buy the company, they saddled it with the debt they took on to buy it in the first place, forcing it into bankruptcy which allowed them to hold off on any claims employees had to compensation or severance, and then retained the trademarks for lean and mean "store within a store" toy sections. So not only do they get to make profit selling toys with the overhead of a brick and mortar borne by a department store rather than themselves, they didn't have to pay any of the 20,000 odd employees they savagely dropped from the workforce. Eurazeo might not be that transparently predatory, but I think something similar is going on. They've turfed out a segment of their property's property (Asmodee and FFG, respectively) in order to improve the attractiveness of FFG for when they spin it off and give them a modest little profit. [/QUOTE]
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