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Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers, aus.electronics, aus.politics
Subject Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
Date 2016-01-09 16:45 +1100
Message-ID <dfbl36F5376U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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"Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> wrote in message 
news:n6q642$sms$1@dont-email.me...
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> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:dfbk6iF4t1pU1@mid.individual.net...
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>> "Truth and honesty" <TruthandHonesty@bluetooth.com.au> wrote in message 
>> news:1dri1yweok470$.1agjyq9e07269$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:56:42 +1100, Pelican wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Fran Farmer" <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:n6nlgs$r1p$4@dont-email.me...
>>>>> On 8/01/2016 11:42 AM, Vote 99% Greens wrote:
>>>>>> Posted on 29 Oct 2015 by Matt Ryan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
>>>>>> Want to know how to turn $10m in to $520m in less than two years? 
>>>>>> Just
>>>>>> ask
>>>>>> Anchorage Capital. The private equity group has pulled off one of the
>>>>>> great
>>>>>> heists of all time, using all the tricks in the book, to turn Dick 
>>>>>> Smith
>>>>>> from a $10m piece of mutton into a $520m lamb.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for a very interesting post.  I'd heard part of that on the
>>>>> radio so it was fascinating to see more detail.
>>>>
>>>> Always good to see a new fiction writer emerging.
>>>
>>>
>>> You are not wrong, its mainly fiction.
>>>
>>> http://www.applianceretailer.com.au/2013/07/lqynkbiver/#.Vo9foLND4Wm
>>>
>>> Woolworths confirmed that the “total proceeds from the sale of Dick 
>>> Smith”
>>> were $94 million, including a $50 million payment on 28 June 2013 and 
>>> $24
>>> million in 12 monthly installments commencing July 2013.
>>
>> Still a fucking great ripoff of the investors. Even if they did pay $95M,
>> they got $520M in the float, a fucking great ripoff of the investors.
>
> The main party losing was Woolworths,

Bullshit, they got $95 for that steaming turd that was never going to be 
viable.

> but no-one cares about them.

The woolys shareholders do.

> The investors should have known what was likely to happen,

Easy to claim after the event.

> and they took the risk of investing.  It's not as if asset-
> stripping by investment bankers is something new.

It wasn’t asset stripping.

> If public deal was unfair/unreasonable, they have a remedy.

Like hell they do.
 

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Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Vote 99% Greens" <VoxPoop@spammail.com> - 2016-01-08 11:42 +1100
  Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2016-01-08 16:54 +1100
  Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-08 17:40 +1100
    Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-08 17:56 +1100
      Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Truth and honesty <TruthandHonesty@bluetooth.com.au> - 2016-01-08 18:06 +1100
        Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-08 21:33 +1100
          Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 08:30 +1100
            Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-09 11:13 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-09 11:25 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 12:59 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:57 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 17:55 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 19:27 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-09 18:22 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 18:27 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-09 18:44 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 18:46 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 12:58 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:57 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 17:54 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 19:27 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Fran Farmer <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> - 2016-01-09 18:28 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 18:37 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 18:38 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:55 +1100
            Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:53 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 17:53 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 19:26 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 18:18 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 19:33 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 21:24 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 08:34 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 10:13 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 15:34 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 15:59 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 17:05 +1100
        Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:29 +1100
          Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 16:36 +1100
            Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:45 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> - 2016-01-09 17:48 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 19:22 +1100
      Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:28 +1100
  Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-08 18:26 +1100
    Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time French <pw_112@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 22:00 +1000
      Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-09 08:03 +1100
      Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 16:48 +1100

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