"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Walmart has never signed a single $4B deal AFAIK.

The two I mentioned. Wal-Mart was perhaps the first compnay to do long
term
deals with their vendors, which is why they were able to get fabulous
deals.

Period. Furthermore I
doubt that *any* supplier has ever lost Walmart as a customer because
they
could not arrive somewhere at a particular time.


I also forgot to mention all the corporate buyouts that run well over $4
billion.



Do you think that any of these buyouts or any other $4 transaction hinged
on
having a corporate jet?


Certainly. Have you ever participated in one? They don't do it my phone
calls and email.

MOF, John Deakin tells the story of one in his article after making the
transition to the G-IV, and how the business crew prepped for their meeting
during the flight. http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/185048-1.html (about
2/3rds down). I rather expect this is the rule more than the exception.

This past week we began our "season" by doing a land buy and then
negotiations with sub-contractors near San Antonio. The entire flight the
contractor foremen were working up scenarios. We did the whole thing in one
day and closed a $1.8M deal on two fronts. This is, of course, chicken feed
compared to the Fortune 50 world.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO