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or nearly 85 years Safeco has been constant, reliable and taken for granted. Now it is only was taken in an acquisition of $ 6.2 billion by Liberty Mutual Group.

It is a small shop for Wall Street. For Seattle, this is an accident claim tail wind.

Washington Mutual is already in the hot seat What about Alaska Airlines, such as the industry continues to consolidate its killing of gasoline in the middle of price? What about small banks, under pressure to merge the mortgage and housing slowdown?

Safeco has recently celebrated its move to downtown Seattle, where it employs about 1900 offices in two towers.

It is hoped that, for better, but Liberty Mutual, which is headquartered in Boston, some of the “savings” for business must be profitable or elimination of many of these jobs turbulent Corporate Seattle.

As for the risk of a possible sale of WaMu, loss of a large financial services headquarters left a large crater in the city centre. These are companies that employ large numbers of people concentrated in the downtown offices.

To see the other consequences, check out Safeco’s Web site. It lists 28 major recipients of grants from the company and sponsorship, including the Hatch Wing Memorial Foundation, North West African American Museum, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera and Woodland Park Zoological Society.

If the experience of other mergers around the nation is a guide, this philanthropy is reduced, perhaps difficult. Liberty Mutual must save money for work management, and now Seattle is just one outpost of a large company in Boston.

This trend is reflected in Safeco itself, which requires a fraction of its Seattle show in their other important places. It plays a role, where life and CEO, when a company decides, for most of its leadership and talent.

The talent and capital are the two holy grail of mobile Century 21, the economy in the developed countries to reduce Safeco’s close.

Seattle is better placed than most other cities to maintain the renewal, invent. But it would be naive to believe that this strike does not feel deeply.
   

It does not happen all at the same time. Reassuring statements may be issued, perhaps made some promises. Do not get fooled. It happens. It is evil.

“This is an opportunity, West Coast wealth of invention and start with a global brand to a substantial increase vis-à-vis Safeco shareholders,” Chief Executive Safeco Paula Reynolds said in a non-lawyered strongly doubt, anodyne statement. It was more imminent in the latest annual report.

Although the company reported the second highest net income in its history and has increased its dividend by 33 percent “Wall Street rewarded, nor the strong performance of our significant progress in establishing a solid basis for ‘future, “she wrote.

Reynolds felt the need, once again reassure shareholders. “We do not invest in Subprime securities, plus bonds, guaranteed loans, Credit Default Swaps or Home Equity lines of credit.

Given that the dog is buried. During Safeco is relatively small and has a number of challenges in their company, whose acquisition is to end the crisis of credit.

The merger Subprime have long exceeded mortgages to a perfect economic storm. Nobody knows what problems might arise in the financial records of each service. What would have spill-over-dull, reliable, Safeco, Reynolds wrote, “an astonishing result.

Generations of people of Seattle Safeco links could pass for submitting Reynolds is another crook Executive in a community sell jewel.

He was Director-General during the year 2006, the energy of a company in Atlanta. What’s it to Seattle, but a place to seek a golden parachute?

It should also be pointed out, she is married to Steve Reynolds, Chief Executive recently sold Puget Energy, a loss for the home district of Bellevue. Discussions on cocktails in the evening must have been interesting for these high-powered couple.

But in fairness, Reynolds plays the game of USA hypercapitalism shielded by its rules. They received a good price for their shareholders.

But although capitalism uses the language rights of the shareholder, which is a constant reality “creative destruction”, particularly through mergers. Studies show that most mergers fail, that these benefits to their policyholders, but they are very profitable for the presidents, bankers and lawyers investment.

The consequences for stakeholders, including municipalities, long ago, an academic discussion. The issue of job losses and competition between classes of consolidation is also controversial, unless there is a big change of political leadership in the cartel legal, regulatory and tax applicable to mergers.