COMMENTARY: Tribute on Merger Talks Breakdown

Don’t you just love these anonymous quotes, particularly when later in the article it stated, “Heidelberg, manroland, MAN and Allianz declined to comment.” Well if manroland and Allianz declined to comment who the hell is making the above quotes!

When I read this my first thoughts were that if manroland or Allianz were surprised that Heidelberg’s sales and orders would remain below expectations, then do they really understand the current state of the market. Are they telling us that manroland is having a great fiscal year and that their sales and orders are going to be above expectations. Far from it and I’m sure that the figures of manroland are just as or more depressing than those of Heidelberg. So don’t try to kid me that this is the reason that Allianz and MAN are pulling the rug from this deal at this time.