Thermo Electron Corp

question 5

Multiple Choice

Thermo Electron Corp. ,the biggest maker of measurement instruments for medical laboratories,agreed to buy the radiation-monitoring-products unit of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain for $30 million to gain European customers.
-Refer to Thermo.Saint-Gobain (of France) is Europe's number-one1 distributor of building materials,and its radiation monitoring unit did not support the company's mission statement.What does this mean?

• A) Thermo Electron's mission statement was incomplete.
• B) Saint-Gobain's mission statement was too broad.
• C) Saint-Gobain's mission dealt with providing building materials to its customers,not radiation-monitoring equipment.
• D) Thermo Electron does not have a mission statement.

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