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How Advent plans to make money with purchase of 'break-even' Black Diamond

Company execs tell Wall Street analysts that in-house Axys migrations will be more likely and more profitable

Author Brooke Southall September 1, 2011 at 12:04 PM
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Peter Hess: We are continuing to aggressively reinvest Black Diamond’s profits back into the business to accelerate our ability to expand [its] feature set and serve even more clients.

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