Suppliers and Competitors

What does it say for business or the future of a company when one of your major suppliers buys a major competitor?

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Philips makes the lamps (light bulbs) we use in almost all of the lighting fixtures we manufacture. They also own Advance ballast. They make fluorescent and HID ballasts that we use. So, you see, they are one of our major suppliers.

From the news article, they now own a major competitor of ours.

2008 is quickly becoming a very interesting year