“We did get calls from companies in other states that did similar things (as Consolidated) and wanted to recruit, but we declined to let them participate in the job fair because we wanted to keep it local.”
Allison Stewart
“The boards took the view that by consolidating the companies into a 'single SITA,' we would strengthen our existing businesses and be better positioned to provide our wide range of complementary telecommunications and IT products and services to the air transport industry. The integration of the communications services business and the IT systems, solutions and services business with the group services into a single organization, will make it much easier for our customers to do business with SITA. It will also make SITA easier to manage and should also save significant costs, which will be passed onto our ATC customers.”
Paul Coby
“There is a huge amount of consolidation in the industry, and that consolidation is smaller companies all becoming larger through mergers or acquisitions or any kind of arrangement. So what's really going on is there's a huge pressure to lower their costs.”
David Manning
“We think cellular companies in Brazil will go through consolidation.”
Dan Barker
“We envision Minnesota's agencies and services as one enterprise. The administration is consolidating similar functions performed by many agencies (accounting and data processing, for example) into an efficient, enterprise structure. The result is more resources for providing front-line service to Minnesotans.”
Dan McElroy
“It only makes sense for the vendors to consolidate as well. You combine those two companies and it allows you to make some significant cost cuts.”
Tony DeSpirito
“It seems like every time you turn around another fund company is opening a brokerage business. Consolidating your account is what they're going after -- people really like being able to do it all in one place.”
Catherine Hickey
