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BP: The case against the BP brand is not so much that the company will enter bankruptcy. It is that BP may end up breaking into pieces for its own sake. This may be to put the liabilities for the Deepwater Horizon spill into a company that also holds escrow capital to cover the huge costs of clean-up and suits. BP may also want to separate its successful refining operations from its exploration business, or recreate an American- based company similar to BP America, which existed for two decades. A restructuring of BP would also allow the firm to take a badly crippled brand and give the oil operation a new name -- much as it did when it changed its name from British Petroleum. The second time may be the charm.
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"We're not the same guys who didn't spilled the oil. That was our evil twin BP. They're dead. See, we've got an eye-patch. We're green. We're green as hell."
also, Blockbuster will likely turn into a Netflix/Redbox-type company. maintaining kiosks and mailing out movies will save them an obscene amount of money in overhead, financing, taxes, et al. with 6,000+ stores and, say, 11 employees at each, that's a fat knot. "money won't fold, pockets so swoll'..." at the top, and 70,000 people looking for work. give or take 1,000 people. maybe less, 'cause they're gonna need a couple people to make the envelope sleeves, a few dozen to man each distribution center, the vending kiosk stocking/ maintenance people, 1 logistics guy, 2 accountants and a couple suits. oh, and a secretary.