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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 16:53 +1100
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"Pelican" <water-birds@sea.somewhere.org.ir> wrote in message 
news:n6p9lf$vuu$1@dont-email.me...
>
>
> "Fran Farmer" <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> wrote in message 
> news:n6o34n$h3t$1@dont-email.me...
>> On 8/01/2016 6:06 PM, Truth and honesty wrote:
>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:56:42 +1100, Pelican wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Fran Farmer" <ask@maybeitwillbeforthcoming.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:n6nlgs$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.
>>
>> So why is even Dick Smith commenting on the greed of the private eqity 
>> group owned it for 18 months and floated it for $400 million mroe than 
>> they bough it for?
>
> Where does greed come into it?

Ripping $400M off investors, stupid.

> If the story is true,

It is.

> what was Woolworths doing in selling an asset at a very substantial 
> discount?

They got a lot more for it than it was worth,
because those ripoff merchants needed that
to rip that $400M off investors.

>> If you think that's not a huge heist, can I join in your next bank 
>> robbery?
>
> The exercise was a standard asset-stripping exercise.

No asset stripping whatever involved.

> At this stage, there haven't been any suggestions that there is anything 
> untoward about what was done,

BULLSHIT.

> certainly no criminal offence like a bank robbery,

Still white collar crime and a ripoff.

> other than by those suffering from envy.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

> What no-one will be told as how much the tax-payer obtained.

We'll see... They were with that other private equity heist.

>>> 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.
>>
>> 

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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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