1.   Analysts are divided over whether Fore and the other expensively acquired businesses will ever make a Decent return for shareholders.

2.   The strategy for integrating the acquired business after the proposed transaction.

3.   This point is well demonstrated by the strong performance of and the recently acquired business.

4.   But the integration of the acquired businesses is expected to drag on earnings for the first half of the year.

5.   Completing the merger of the two previously acquired businesses had been in the works for months.

6.   Do you salivate at the scent of synergy among acquired businesses?

7.   Recently, the company failed to raise cash through a stock sale, acquired businesses that were unsuccessful and went through a series of layoffs.

8.   The acquired business would break even or would add slightly to earnings in the first year after the acquisition, Lichtenberger said.

9.   The suppliers cited continued cost-cutting, higher sales from newly acquired businesses and higher sales of more profitable products.

10.   These risk takers are attracted by independence and emboldened by their newly acquired business skills.