Newly-weds move into dream-homes, where they can live happily
ever after. That's the romantic ideal anyway. Plenty know the reality is
very different. What about firms who get together? How do they make their
new relationship work? Does everyone pack up and leave for spanking new
premises, under whose roof two companies become one? As with married couples,
it's a bit more complicated than that.
Jarosław Zagórski, Senior Negotiator of Cushman and Wakefield
H&B believes that whatever companies involved in mergers or acquisitions
do decide, ,the best solution is to move into new space, for psychological
reasons if nothing else". Only by doing so, it can be supposed, can two
merging companies properly forge a new identity. Given recent experience in
Warsaw however, it is clear that this is not a choice a lot of firms actually
rush to make.
On May 3rd this year, computer hardware companies Hewlett Packard and Compaq
officially merged worldwide and until now, in Wars