And he expressed concern about an "alarming lack of acquisition planning across the department".
"As always with Bunzl, the cash generation was impressive, and at the moment the lack of acquisition opportunities at an acceptable price means that the normal accretive bolt-on deals are not adding to growth; rather, the group balance sheet is de-gearing.
There is certainly no lack of acquisition targets.
At the same time, it helps to reduce or avoid some dangers deriving from the lack of acquisition of the A2 level, a consequence of the current way of learning and of the fluidity and liquidness of the contemporary world.
Elsewhere in the sector, J.P. Morgan downgraded Premcor to "underweight" from "overweight," citing a lack of acquisition opportunities for the company as well as a relatively weak cash position.
Homozygous Atxn2 ko mice exhibited a lack of acquisition of fear conditioning (Fig. 3A C).
Although E17 PCs are responsive to the P0 environment (their overall outgrowth was stimulated in the E17+P0 co-cultures), the lack of acquisition of the postnatal neuritic pattern indicates that efficient instructors are not acting in the P0 cultures.
The codes were applied to data that specifically mentioned 'confidence' as well as students' personal, institutional and contextual reasons for lack or acquisition of confidence (e.g. non-clinical status, recognition of application of research to clinical practice).
It has been suggested that a carrier strain will likely lack gene acquisition capabilities and have little fitness advantages compared with those strains causing symptomatic infections because the human reservoir is small and physiologically isolated [ 4, 5].
However, when a link to a novel dietary compound was not encountered, the descendant network either shrunk or remained static (i.e., descendant rates = 0) (Fig. 9, out of n = 49 transitions from ancestral highly elevated rate to descendant stasis or network reduction, all were associated with the lack of acquisition of an additional dietary link).
Asked about the lack of acquisitions in China, Demopoulos said he's hearing that more bankers and lawyers are actually working on M&A style transactions, so it looks like they're picking up.
