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<blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 385017" data-attributes="member: 2855">On the buying and selling of companies...Just wanted to make a few quick comments here on the buying and/or selling of a company. (note: I have been part of a small company that was bought)First off, the original poster said that this was supposed to occur in December. If, the Due Diligence were started right about now, then a December sale of what he said is possible. (Due Dilligence is the part, put simply, where the two companies check each other out, thouroughly and a bunch of other legal stuff happens)* Yes, layoffs are one way to make a company profit look better, but the Due Dilligence process looks at more than &quot;just now&quot;, it also goes back quite a ways.*There are several actual steps in the process of buying or selling a company. And it can drag on for a long time. If such a sale is in the process, then there a a good number of people who already know about, but who also are enjoined to not discus it. (If somebody leaks it, it could actually kill such a deal, especially since Hasbro is a publicly traded company).Me, I have no real interest or stake in whether D&amp;D gets sold or not, but I will watch with interest...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rasyr, post: 385017, member: 2855"] [b]On the buying and selling of companies...[/b] Just wanted to make a few quick comments here on the buying and/or selling of a company. (note: I have been part of a small company that was bought) First off, the original poster said that this was supposed to occur in December. If, the Due Diligence were started right about now, then a December sale of what he said is possible. (Due Dilligence is the part, put simply, where the two companies check each other out, thouroughly and a bunch of other legal stuff happens) * Yes, layoffs are one way to make a company profit look better, but the Due Dilligence process looks at more than "just now", it also goes back quite a ways. *There are several actual steps in the process of buying or selling a company. And it can drag on for a long time. If such a sale is in the process, then there a a good number of people who already know about, but who also are enjoined to not discus it. (If somebody leaks it, it could actually kill such a deal, especially since Hasbro is a publicly traded company). Me, I have no real interest or stake in whether D&D gets sold or not, but I will watch with interest... :D [/QUOTE]

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