Weak state firms must consider mergers

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• Yoofi 10 years ago

  These firms should be shut down. Why should a private sector firm like to get herself involved with a loss-making business venture be it private or public.
  
  What sort of kwaatinpong is this coming from this man. Any loss ma ...
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  These firms should be shut down. Why should a private sector firm like to get herself involved with a loss-making business venture be it private or public.
  
  What sort of kwaatinpong is this coming from this man. Any loss making venture needs to be shut down to save scarce resources be it govt or private!

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• Ben 10 years ago

  He is right,the private sector is more discipline and can take up the state firms.what do you mean he is wrong. We had divestiture of state owned companies and some were bought by private firms.The problem with the state firm ...
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  He is right,the private sector is more discipline and can take up the state firms.what do you mean he is wrong. We had divestiture of state owned companies and some were bought by private firms.The problem with the state firms are lack of capital.

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• Danny 10 years ago

  How can you say any loss firm should be shut down,if so a lot of companies being private or public will be shut down by now.it needs reviving by injection of funds and new ideas. This system is not a new thing.

  How can you say any loss firm should be shut down,if so a lot of companies being private or public will be shut down by now.it needs reviving by injection of funds and new ideas. This system is not a new thing.

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• Mikky 10 years ago

  It is the best solution to create jobs.some of the private firms have the needed capital .look at the tomoto factory at the north,we now have a new factory producing pomo tomato paste.it is prudent to talk to them if they can ...
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  It is the best solution to create jobs.some of the private firms have the needed capital .look at the tomoto factory at the north,we now have a new factory producing pomo tomato paste.it is prudent to talk to them if they can take up that factory and rivive it so that it will create jobs and reduce import.As at now it is not giving the government any income and the youth there are coming to Accra for jobs.it's a good advice to give some of the state firms to the private sector for merger.

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• lankwei 10 years ago

  Only if government keeps an arms length relationship with the merged companies.

  Only if government keeps an arms length relationship with the merged companies.

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• Ajit Babu 10 years ago

  A government entity cannot merge with a privately owned organization. Never done anywhere in the western world. They can rather have some strategic alliance to help one another. A merger is totally not even feasible.

  A government entity cannot merge with a privately owned organization. Never done anywhere in the western world. They can rather have some strategic alliance to help one another. A merger is totally not even feasible.

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• Giggy 10 years ago

  The idea is not about merger ,but the private sector absorbing the public ones that are not doing well.Past example is when vane took over stc.transport. So it is about selling the shares to private companies to take over.we ...
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  The idea is not about merger ,but the private sector absorbing the public ones that are not doing well.Past example is when vane took over stc.transport. So it is about selling the shares to private companies to take over.we always talk about thing that thus not work,but we must also think of coming out with good policies to enable us create employment.we have public private partnership and it was started by a country which we are practicing in Ghana now.who thought Obama will be President of US.we Africans like it is not not been done and it can be done.it's just like diverstiture.

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• EZEKIEL 10 years ago

  Because Ghanaians don't TRUST each other, we end up STRUGGLING ALONE !!
  Our MENTALITY is NOT CONDUSIVE to Nation Building at all.....!

  Because Ghanaians don't TRUST each other, we end up STRUGGLING ALONE !!
  Our MENTALITY is NOT CONDUSIVE to Nation Building at all.....!

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