MVL (Michael Lissauer, executive vice president and editor of BusinessWire newsletter): Business Wire is not the first acquisition you made based upon a letter (Forest River, for instance). How many such inquiries do you get on a weekly basis?
WB: I get relatively few inquiries such as I received from Forest River and Business Wire. That is because I list our very specific acquisition criteria in our annual report and ask people only to contact me when all criteria are met. If I didn't publish these, I would literally be inundated by thousands of inquiries a year. I still get a few proposals each week that come nowhere near meeting our criteria.
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WB: I get relatively few inquiries such as I received from Forest River and Business Wire. That is because I list our very specific acquisition criteria in our annual report and ask people only to contact me when all criteria are met. If I didn't publish these, I would literally be inundated by thousands of inquiries a year. I still get a few proposals each week that come nowhere near meeting our criteria.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&folderPath=%252Fnewsletter%252Ftop_news%252F2006%252F&docName=12_topnews_06_02_b.html&beanStrID=newsletter_topnews_06&viewID=content
