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".
There will be more acquisitions.
There will be more acquisitions to come, he says.
The company said 1.0% to 2.0% of this additional growth will be from acquisitions.
And we have heard there will be more acquisitions on the cards in the future.
Bartz also says Yahoo will be making acquisitions to drive content.
Van Lede says that pharmaceuticals will provide half of ebit in 2004, based on the unlikely assumption that there will be no acquisitions and divestitures.
One should note that a major difficulty with this approach will be standardizing acquisition parameters in flow cytometers from different institutions.
The data acquisition will be independent, and after acquisition the data will be pooled and used to develop both models.
All the market forces will be pushing toward acquisitions".
