Where is Merit headed?






There were companies that were bought that should not have been. There is the Hero product that continues to underperform, the Define products should not have been bought but was done anyway even when it was shown the market was too small, the embolic products while they did well with high gross margins underperformed because the sales leaders did not know how to counter the competition and refused advice from the sales reps were on the front lines and the list continues. Read the fine print in the sec filings and you will see that Fred bought technologies when the company had a cash flow problem. This continued and continued instead of concentrating on high gross margin products. At some point you have to decide where do you want to play and then focus. If it’s in the commodity type products then play there with high quality and low prices. If you want to start moving upmarket then pick a segment and go for if. There is no strategy from Fred and it appears the new board seems to not have one either.

There is a PR burden as well for any company that wants to steer clear of racism and sexism. What does one do with a barrel full of nepotism?
 




Joe and his Cook boys should continue what they are doing! It will continue to help Merit down the path of the most toxic, dictatorial working environment. But wait...that's Fred.

Need to continue carrying out all of Fred's ideas. He even has R&D and Business Development reporting into a person who ticks the boxes (but has no idea what she is doing). Check into her background...it's interesting.

Lost a great person in Todd.

People complain, but Merit continues to chug along despite its toxic environment and lawsuits. I wonder if anyone ever check into what products its knowingly sells off label...hmm
 


You hire incompetent people to check the box who will not care about nepotism as they are also part of the "clan". Yes gets you everywhere in Merit.

Incompetent medical affairs who cannot even complete a study. Excuse COVID.

Cook boys who should continue to be in charge...to pave the way for continued culture of incompetence and toxicity
 




Cook boys who should continue to be in charge...to pave the way for continued culture of incompetence and toxicity

Cook boys.

Rich, Adam, Brandon, and the marketing lady. We are all pulling for you. Do us a favor and stop talking about Zilver and what you did 100 years ago. Do you see what you’re doing? Self aware?

Joe, wake up before it’s too late.
 








The untrustworthiness of the leadership, the corporate kool-aid and the unreliability of the product manufacturing will yield in a sell off to a Chinese conglomerate in the coming months. Get your resume ready everyone…
 






The untrustworthiness of the leadership, the corporate kool-aid and the unreliability of the product manufacturing will yield in a sell off to a Chinese conglomerate in the coming months. Get your resume ready everyone…

For the life of me, I cannot understand why people like you stay here (assuming you are still here) and don't push off to greener fields.
 


For the life of me, I cannot understand why people like you stay here (assuming you are still here) and don't push off to greener fields.

Because complaining about my 300K a year total comp when it should be 400K in all seriousness.

Side note!!!

The CCO is a finance guy and is notorious for slashing comp so be ready for it ladies and gents, boys and girls!
 




Because complaining about my 300K a year total comp when it should be 400K in all seriousness.

Side note!!!

The CCO is a finance guy and is notorious for slashing comp so be ready for it ladies and gents, boys and girls!

This is very true. He has a reputation for abrupt commission cuts in his international markets. I know, I worked for him.
 







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