Bob Peterson responds:

No offense to your opinion but Emerson is known as a very well managed
company. I would expect Ridgid to do well under its stewardship.

Yeah, except that Ridgid is under the tutelage of TTI, not Emerson, though if I
got most of the complexities right, the Ridgid brand name, and the plumbing
tools, are still Emerson's.

Charlie Self
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." H. L. Mencken