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Old 01-08-2024, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by HWYSTR455 View Post
Is there a downside to the Holley group or Mr. Gasket group? Haven't really heard too much bad about them.
Both companies are known for buying, destroying, and then offshoring replacements under the old brand name. Look what they did to Weiand. Scrapped everything good, now they sell cheap-junk manifolds from China.


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Originally Posted by chiphead View Post
Holley group has been buying up performance brands. Holley owns MSD. MSD bought Mallory,
"MSD" didn't buy Mallory, although I think it was written that way in some articles. Anyway, that's a common mistake.

The company that bought MSD, bought Mallory and a bunch of other companies. Then that company got bought by Holley.

Little fish get eaten by bigger fish, then the bigger fish get eaten by huge fish. Conglomerates rarely care about the end product--they're more worried about profit margins and the next quarterly report.