Can Acquired Companies Keep Their Cool?

Is it possible for a large corporate behemoth to acquire a small, independent company, without losing the essence of what made it great in the first place?

Steve Glaveski
6 min readSep 20, 2021

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Recently, Fermentum Group, creator of craft brewery Stone & Wood, was acquired by Lion — a corporate behemoth wholly owned by Japan’s…

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.