Akzonobel CEO: Deal with Axalta makes 'too much sense to ignore'

Um, everybody's had a go at making this combination happen over the years because it makes too much business sense to ignore. Uh, it worked out this time around because the stars were aligned. Essentially, to do a merger of equals, it's a no premium merger of equals, you have to have both companies doing well because if it's unbalanced, then there's always somebody who feels that they're being uh uh they're doing this at the wrong time.We were performing well, so was Excela. uh we had two uh leadership team ...