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True, to a certain extent. Again, I clearly don't have the facts.....but, there tends to be two root causes for a company to be bought out. The first is due to desperation, by that I mean the company has hit dire straights, and the board / investors agree to sell the company to pay off debt, etc. The second is based on strategic expansion, generally to allow the company to prosper and achieve higher state goals. In the second example, the owners / investors choose to sell with a much more discerning criteria for its buyer, and normally with clauses in the agreement that will allow the purchased company to continue to operate under its own management..... All of this ignores back room politics and business wrangling that forces the sale of a company, which I guess could fall under example number 1.
Considering all of that, the purchasing company appears to have direct relevance to the operations of GG, albeit from a tool set perspective. Added to that, there has been little to no mention anywhere of GG being in financial trouble.....so, I can only assume this decision to sell to be of a strategic nature with a view to increasing the companies overall value in its chosen market place.
Will this mean more and better products? Quite possibly. My guess is that GG marketed itself to the buying company with talk about high end collectibles, not an ability to crank out cheap toys. The recent announcement of 1/4 scale products from highly lucrative licenses may have been something of a sweetener to any perspective buyer.....not only that, but the record breaking retail prices of the Honey Trap line, without licensing burden, would surely prove to any buyer the potential the company has to return a profit.....
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