Chess, Checkers and Stratego, games of consolidation | chris-schuring

#Chess - Chess, Checkers and Stratego, games of consolidation - (blog)

When you look at the industry there is a very interesting game being played. Is it chess or is it checkers, I think it is more like Stratego. It has been a few weeks since my last blog, not sure why but I am back and my mind has been busy at the game, the game of consolidation. In just the past week the amount of mergers and acquisitions as well as closures has been numerous in the energy industry as a whole. From the Duke deals and the firings to the small majority purchase of Premier Power in California the activity is creating a lot of chatter, good, bad, better, who owns who, crisis, great markets, more stock, less and then you add in the China markets now saying we are dumping on them and the European markets getting into the China fight. This is going to be fun to watch. So the main question I want to promote here is this; consolidation god or bad? Here comes my opin...

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