There were acquisitions: in 1987 he bought Benoy, an architectural firm specialising in shopping malls, and the following year he added product design to the portfolio with the US firm Richardson Smith.
There were acquisitions, multiple investment rounds, lots of expansion, big strategic partnerships and some surprise failures.
The products which LiteBulb has already launched are selling faster than expected and there are acquisition opportunities out there which could help transform the company.
Along the development from preschool age to adolescence there is acquisition and refinement of cognitive functions.
But, of course, there are acquisitions in our future, and we wanted to talk about them.
Then there are acquisitions like "The Day," a postapocalyptic thriller that WWE, working with Anchor Bay, bought at the Toronto International Film Festival and will showcase at the coming Sarasota Film Festival.
There are acquisitions under consideration, as well as an ambitious plan to double sales in three years.
No longer, says Matthew DiFrisco, a restaurant analyst at Harris Nesbitt in New York, will there be "acquisitions that immediately boost the top line, with margin improvements following".
Over the next 50 years there were new acquisitions of works by, among others, Piero della Francesca, Goya, Constable, Van Eyck, Memling, Ruysdael and Claude (the monumental "Sermon on the Mount").
Will that list remain intact, or will there be another acquisition in a couple of months?
