Daisy Group’s Riley: Integration of £200m + acquired beast starts today Management at Daisy Group today start the mammoth task of integrating Phoenix IT Group, and getting the respective sales staff to cross-sell following yesterday’s purchase completion. The acquisition of tech services outfit Phoenix is the 48th acquisition Daisy has made since it was founded by chairman Matthew Riley in 2001, …
I hope I'm wrong, and I have no knowledge of the company except as a user of Daisy's phone and broadband services, but the hype and speed with which Daisy acquires businesses reminds me so much of the rise of the chemical business MTM before it went tits-up.
The speed of growth through non-organic means was disturbing then, and looks so similar now
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