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ture’ in the businesses they own. Man-

The Author agement and employees come to work

Barry Parker, bdp1 Consulting Ltd. provides strategic and tactical support, including each day determined to do everything analytics and communications, to businesses across the maritime spectrum. The company they can to increase the equity value of www.conconnect.com can be found online at: the business. Nothing is allowed to get in the way of making the business more successful and more valuable.”

Such attitudes may have precipitated the problems at OW, and, in particular, at Dynamic Oil Trading, its catastrophic loss-making Singapore subsidiary not mentioned in OW’s March, 2014 pro- spectus. Altor, on its website, describes a key criterion for its investments: “As a rule of thumb, we only invest in com- panies where we see a potential for the company to double the operating pro