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Bernard Lester of Lester Electronics, Inc. (LEI) should prevent the merge of Shang-wa and Transnational Electronics Corporation at all costs. Shang-wa has been an exclusive supplier of capacitors to LEI for the past 35 years. Both companies started off small and have grown profitable in business together over the years. Both businesses have now escalated to the point where they are major players within their industry. Currently Lester Electronics is being pursued by Avral Electronics, a European based company, at the same time that Shang-wa is being heavily considered for purchase by Transnational Electronics.
It has already been determined that if Lester Electronics does not take some action in preventing the Shang-wa / Transnational merger, LEI stands to lose 43% of its revenues over a period of 5 years. Bernard Lester has charged Anne Lorale, CFO of Lester Electronics, with going over the term proposals of both the LEI / Avral and Shang-wa / TEC mergers, to determine LEI's best option. Avral and TEC are considering acquiring their respective companies in order to expand their global business.
Google, looking to expand its video sector, purchased YouTube, a popular online video website, for $1.65 billion. Google seeks to be able to compete with companies like Newscorp, Microsoft and Yahoo by owning a major video and social networking venue. Avral Electronics is like Google, in that they seek to acquire a growing and profitable company in order to expand its distribution business to the U.S. through Lester Electronics. Google was being criticized for not expanding and "relying too much on advertising tied to key ...